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Sunday, September 18, 2011

8:00 AM

• Public Access Technology Benchmarks Training (no materials available)
  
• Solar America Communities Workshop: Getting Started with Solar in Your Community (no materials available)
  

10:00 AM

• Speed Coaching (no materials available)
  

12:45 PM

• County Administrators’ Idea Exchange (no materials available)
  
• Economic Engagement: The Power of Inclusion in Challenging Times (no materials available)
  
• Labor Relations in the Age of the "New Normal" (no materials available)
  
• Luncheon for Women in Professional Local Government Management (no materials available)
  
• The Art and Science of 5G Leadership: Navigating in Disruptive Times
  
• Transforming an Organization through Design Thinking (no materials available)
  

7:00 PM

• Networking Mixer (no materials available)
  

Monday, September 19, 2011

7:00 AM

• Inspirational Breakfast (no materials available)
  

9:45 AM

• Being Brave and Bold without Getting Fired
  
• Community Resilience in the New Normal
  
• Connecting Communities: How Local Governments Can Be Active Contributors to Citizen Engagement
  
• Healthy Wealthy and Wise -- How Can You Plan for Long Term Health Savings & Living?
  
• Life in the Green Economy: Chattanooga’s Partnerships and Green Jobs
  
• Solar Powering Your Community: The Local Government Role in Increasing Solar Adoption
  
• The Cloud Revolution: Transforming GIS for Local Government (no materials available)
  
• True North: Discover Your Authentic Leadership (no materials available)
  
• What is New and Cutting Edge in Employee Pay?
  

10:00 AM

• Partners Roundtables on Hot Topics (no materials available)
  

11:15 AM

• Academic Research Roundtable (no materials available)
  
• Applying ICMA’s Code of Ethics to Council-Manager Relationships: MPA Student Session (no materials available)
  
• Are You Ready for Retirement? (no materials available)
  
• Assistants’ Luncheon
  
• Digital Inclusion: Keeping Your Residents Connected in the 21st Century (no materials available)
  
• Encore, Encore: Creating a Fulfilling Next Life Phase
  
• Tools and Techniques to Pay for, and Make Your Community Sustainable through Improved Stormwater Management Systems
  
• What to Do When the Results Are In: The Tough Part about Using Citizen Surveys to Improve Governments (no materials available)
  

11:30 AM

• Charting a Course to Zero Waste
  
• Communicating More Effectively with your Community
  

12:45 PM

• Conflict Resolution
  
• Effective Applications in Performance Measurement
  
• Government 2.0: Delivering Services through Citizen Engagement
  
• Outsourcing Information Technology
  
• Recognizing, Integrating, and Transforming the Existing Local Government Workforce
  
• Technology Trends for Cities and Counties in 2011
  
• The Evolving Role of the Professional Manager (no materials available)
  
• Today’s Health Benefit Challenges and Solutions
  
• Tools for Citizen Engagement
  
• What Options Are Left When Downsizing Is NOT an Option?
  

2:00 PM

• Meeting the Challenge of Wet Weather Events and Combined Sewer Overflows
  
• Using Technology to Improve Effectiveness in the Built Environment
  

2:30 PM

• Excellence through Skill Sets in the New Normal
  
• Leadership 101
  
• Managers in Transition: Perspectives and Strategies
  
• Public Pensions: Current Status and Future Directions
  
• Reflections on City Management and Council-Manager Form of Government (no materials available)
  
• Strategies for Enhancing Political Astuteness
  
• The Future of Wireless
  

4:00 PM

• Alternative Delivery of Services in California’s Newest City (no materials available)
  
• Building Community/Military Partnerships and Collaboration and Why Local Government Managers Need to Be Engaged Now (no materials available)
  
• Create Your Own Coaching Program (no materials available)
  
• Managers as Faculty (no materials available)
  
• President’s Colloquium: Leadership in Building Sustainable Communities (no materials available)
  
• Working Internationally: Creating Excellence in Local Governance Worldwide
  

Tuesday, September 20, 2011

9:45 AM

• Engage Your Citizens with Technology
  
• Sustainable Innovation in Milwaukee’s Water Sector
  

10:00 AM

• Partners' Service Project (no materials available)
  

11:00 AM

• Benefits of Water Efficiency Measures
  
• Between a Rock and a Hard Place
  
• Cookingham Award Winner: What They Do That We Should Know (no materials available)
  
• Leading from the Middle: Selling Your Ideas
  
• Leading the Staff or Leading the Council: What’s the Difference?
  
• Partnerships 2.0: Leveraging the Private Sector to Create More Sustainable Communities (no materials available)
  
• Shared Services 101
  
• The Investment Environment: Where Are We Headed? (no materials available)
  
• Using Data to Right-Size Police and Fire
  
• Your Next Citizen (no materials available)
  

12:30 PM

• Are You Bound by Tradition? (no materials available)
  
• Conversation with State Leagues: Defending the Public Sector without Being Defensive
  
• Keys to Resiliency in Recovering from a Disaster
  
• Learning as a Strategy for Adaptive Change and Self-Renewal
  
• Making Livability Real: How to Translate the Federal Livability Principles into Everyday Action (no materials available)
  
• Performance Management in the 21st Century (no materials available)
  

12:45 PM

• Community Branding: Beyond a Logo and a Line
  
• Water as Economic Development
  

2:00 PM

• Closing the Communication Feedback Loop with Citizens
  
• Employee Engagement
  
• Future Financial Challenges Facing State and Local Governments (no materials available)
  
• Leadership Lessons from the Younger Generation
  
• Making the Right Decisions to Address Your Multigenerational Workforce (no materials available)
  
• Staying Inspired
  
• The Ethics of Regionalism
  

3:30 PM

• Challenges in Executive Compensation: Getting It Right
  
• Developing Your Dream Team of Advisers
  
• Ideas That Worked--Rapid Fire Innovation
  
• Partner's Perspective
  
• The Five Stages of Denial When Rightsizing
  
• Too Many Hats (no materials available)
  

Wednesday, September 21, 2011

8:30 AM

• Changed for Good: Leading Transformation in Your Organization and Your Community
  
• Coping with the Budget Crisis: Achieving Fiscal Health and Wellness through Priority-Based Budgeting
  
• Partners Breakfast and Educational Session
  
• Process Improvement Tools: Progressive Techniques to Simplify Government Processes