1. June 28–30, 2010
Arlington, VA
2010
Environmental
Performance Summit
Measuring & Improving Performance in Environmental Performance in Government
• Create a “Performance-Based” Culture in Your Agency
• Discover Leading Innovations in Utilizing Performance Measures for Environmental Programs
• Forge Partnerships Across all Levels of Government for Success
• Improve Your Environmental Performance
Featuring Two Interactive Workshops on Environmental Performance Management
In Association with:
Earn up to 18 CPE Credits!
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2. WORKSHOPS: Monday, June 28, 2010
Who
Pre-Conference Workshops are practical, supplementary application sessions which incorporate
and review tools, techniques and methods presented during the event. Participants will obtain a
further understanding of how to use newly acquired tools and cutting-edge strategies. Through
Should Attend group exercises and scenario-based learning, you’ll walk away with the expertise and resources
needed for immediate and practical application. Enrollment space is limited, so register today to
reserve your place.
• Environmental
Performance 8:30
Managers/Auditors Workshop Registration & Continental Breakfast
• Environmental
9:00
Specialist/Scientist
Workshop A: Develop Quality Performance Measures in an Environmental and
• Environmental Natural Resource Framework
Protection Specialist/ Developing performance measures is frequently cited as one of the most difficult jobs a
Compliance Leads government manager can face. Numerous obstacles exist, from obtaining stakeholder input
to measuring what truly “matters” rather than what is easy to count. In order to provide the
• EMS Coordinator/ optimum level of service to citizens, government agencies must measure by outcomes and
Technologist not process. This workshop will provide a methodology for developing outcome-oriented
• Natural Resource measures and linking them to specific strategies, outputs and activities.
Managers • Develop an environmental performance management system to drive results
• Use the logic model to determine outcome, strategy and output measures
• Environmental Research
• Explore model performance measures for projects and programs
Specialists/Research
Program Specialist
• Environmental Quality 12:00
Control Managers Lunch Break
• Land/Soil
1:00
Conservationists
Workshop B: Performance-Based Budgeting: Budget-Performance Integration
• Sustainability Team for Environmental and Natural Resource Programs
Coordinator Performance-based budgeting is vital to aligning performance measures with budgetary
• Utility Providers requests This workshop provides a concrete approach to link resources to results through
performance budgeting. It begins with a review of federal guidance for performance
• Research Program budgeting and examples from several relevant programs. Institute experts will walk you
Specialist/Economist through the process of formulating a budget based on end-outcomes, the result of which is the
alignment of performance and costs of a program into a formal budget justification.
• Quality Assurance • Explore a seven-step process for integrating performance and budgetary information
Leads
• Implement a performance-based budget in line with key reporting mandates
• Program Supervisor/ • Use performance-based budgeting to improve results and enhance budgetary requests
Managers/Analysts
• Policy Analysts
4:00
Workshops Adjourn
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3. DAY 1: Tuesday, June 29, 2010
8:30
Registration & Continental Breakfast
Become
a Certified Government
9:00 Performance Manager
Keynote Address: Improving Environmental Performance: Status of
To ensure professional
Executive Order 13514 “Federal Leadership in Environmental, Energy,
success, you must continually
and Economic Performance” expand your skills and
Executive Order 13514 was signed by President Obama on 5 October, 2009. It includes the education. The bar has
latest federal and agency-specific guidance on meeting greenhouse gas emission reductions been raised in government
and other information resources to help Federal agencies meet energy reduction and other
agencies and organizations
environmental performance requirements. This keynote will provide an overview of its
and many government
progress and what needs to happen in order for these goals to be achievable
managers are now required
to receive formal certification
to stay up to date on the
10:00 latest trends, best practices
Break & Refreshments and mandates.
10:15
Leadership Panel: Best Strategies for Utilizing Performance Measures for To address these needs, the
Institute offers a Certificate
Environmental Programs
in Government Performance
• Discover new approaches and solutions to environmental performance management
Management. Completing
• Identify verifiable data sources for environmental and natural resources outcomes a certification program is
• Develop innovations and management approaches to increase the use of performance easy. Just attend three “core”
indicators in measuring and evaluating programs courses and an additional
three “elective” courses you
select based on topics that
11:15 meet your agency’s unique
Select the Right Performance Measures for Your Environmental Programs needs. Upon successful
completion, you will emerge
• Receive an update on environmental and natural resource performance measurement
from the Institute’s certification
mandates and guidelines
program with a thorough
• Develop effective output, strategy and outcome performance measures
understanding of all course
• Identify strategies for collecting and reporting performance information concepts—and poised to
Michael Binder, Deputy Assistant Inspector General, Environmental Protection Agency apply what you learned in a
real and practical way.
12:15
Lunch Break
For more information about
certification, please contact
Melvin Hall at 202-739-9630
or email him at Melvin.Hall@
PerformanceInstitute.org.
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4. DAY 1: continued
Bring
1:15
Performance-Based Budgeting: Align Performance Measures with
Budgetary Requests
This Program • Learn to restructure your budget to support your strategic plan
In-House • Evaluate a ten-step process for creating a performance based budget
• Align your budget request to your performance data
One of the more popular
Elizabeth Scheffler, Chief Financial Officer, National Oceans Service
vehicles for accessing
the Institute’s educational
2:15
offerings is the delivery
Break & Refreshments
of on-site trainings and
management facilitations. 2:30
Bringing a training or
Manage Environmental Performance in the “Green Age”
facilitation in-house gives
• Learn to adapt your environmental performance management system to the demands of
you the opportunity to
the “green age”
customize a program
that addresses your exact • Discover how improving performance management will help you meet the challenges of
the future
challenges and provides
a more personal learning • Understand what “going green” is and how it will affect your office
experience, while virtually
eliminating travel expenses.
Whether you require 3:30
training for your department Case Study: USPS Paying for Environmental Performance
or for an organization-wide
• Evaluate the effectiveness of the new pay-for-performance indicators used to measure how
initiative, the advanced well managers and supervisors meet goals for energy and fuel usage
learning methods employed
• Discover other projects that have been implemented that are designed to save money and
by The Performance Institute
use less energy
will create an intimate
• Learn which aspect of production the USPS has focused most of its attention on in order to
training atmosphere that
help reduce waste
maximizes knowledge
transfer to enhance
the talent within your
organization. 4:15
Day One Adjourns
For more information about
in-house training options,
please contact Jennifer
Mueller at 202-739-9619
or Jennifer.Mueller@
PerformanceInstitute.org
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5. DAY 2: Wednesday, June 30, 2010
What
8:30
Registration & Continental Breakfast
You Will Learn
9:00
Keynote Address: Establish Partnerships Across All Levels of Government:
ASSESS
Saving Energy by Creating Industry, Federal and State Programs the impact of your
and Partnerships performance measures by
The important role of partnerships in implementing smart growth in the environmental arena tracking results
cannot be stressed more. In order to be able to improve the performance of environmental
projects and programs throughout the federal government, forging a strategic partnership
across all levels of government is vital. During this keynote you will learn to communicate tools SUPPORT
to effectively express environmental mandates and requests to stakeholders as well as how to employees, program
integrate environmental performance standards to develop common-ground goals partners and the regulated
and initiatives. community through a clear
focus on performance and
results
10:00
Break & Refreshments ADVANCE
environmental protection
10:15 and resource conservation
Evaluate the Quality of Your Performance Procedures through benchmarking and
• Evaluate the newest methods for collecting and presenting environmental improved accountability
performance data
• Understand the key principles for examination and reporting
DISCOVER
• Learn how to improve upon current performance measures to improve environmental emerging issues and
programs overall
pending legislation for
environmental and natural
resource programs
11:15
Status of Sustainability Programs in the Federal Government REDUCE
• Discover the current status of sustainability programs program costs by
• Discuss the future goals for specific programs and projects leveraging the
• Learn how policies related to sustainable development not only deal with the participation of all levels of
environmental but also social, economic, health, education and related fields government and industry
12:15
Lunch Break
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6. DAY 2: continued
1:15
Manage Environmental Performance Effectively by Creating a “Performance-
Based” Culture in Your Agency
• Enhance your ability to communicate a performance message to stakeholders
• Refine environmental performance measurement and reporting techniques to
demonstrate achievements
• Obtain employee input when evaluating the state of environmental performance
management in your office
2:15
Break & Refreshments
2:30
Overview of U.S. EPA Office of Research and Development Programs
• Learn about sustainability within the context of the Office of Research and Development,
and Green Chemistry Program
• Discover the steps being taken to reduce and prevent environmental risks
• Discuss where the increased research funding for the EPA is going and how it will be used
3:30
Status Report on the EPA’s E3 (Economy, Energy and Environment) Projects
and Programs
• Learn how to reduce the environmental impact of manufacturing plants through green
manufacturing practices and improvement
• Reduce overall carbon emissions by decreasing energy consumption and increasing energy
efficiency of facilities
• Improve the regional economy by retaining jobs in more competitive companies and
positioning them for growth and job creation in emerging green industries
4:15
Conference Adjourns
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7. LOGISTICS
Venue & Hotel Group Discounts
The 2010 Environmental Performance Summit will be hosted For more information on group discounts for The 2010
at The Performance Institute’s training center in Arlington, VA, Environmental Performance Summit please contact
just one block east of the Courthouse stop on the Orange Line Paul Rogers at 858-737-4122 or Paul.Rogers@ASMIweb.com.
of the D.C. Metro. A public parking garage is located inside of
the building for $10/day. Continental breakfast and refreshments CPE Credits
will be provided for delegates on each day.
Delivery Method: Group-live
Program Level: Basic
Conference Address
Prerequisites: None
The Performance Institute Training Center Advanced Preparation: None
1515 N. Courthouse Rd. CPE Credits: Up to 18
Suite 600
Arlington, VA 22201 CPE Credits: 6 Credits for Each Day of Training, 18 for the full
three day Forum. The Performance Institute is registered with the
Hotel National Association of State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA) as
A limited number of rooms have been reserved at the Arlington a sponsor of continuing professional education on the National
Rosslyn Courtyard by Marriott at the prevailing rate of $233.00 Registry of CPE Sponsors. State boards of accountancy have
until May 28, 2010. Please call the hotel directly and reference final authority on the acceptance of individual courses for CPE
code “Environmental Performance Summit” when making credit. Complaints regarding sponsors may be addressed to the
reservations to get the discounted rate. The hotel is conveniently National Registry of CPE Sponsors, 150 Fourth Avenue North,
located three blocks from the Rosslyn Metro station. Please ask Nashville, TN 37219-2417. Website: www.nasba.org.
the hotel about a complimentary shuttle that is also available for
your convenience. Cancellation Policy
For live events: The Performance Institute will provide a full refund less $399
Arlington Rosslyn Courtyard by Marriott administration fee for cancellations four weeks before the event. If cancellation
occurs within two weeks prior to conference start date, no refund will be issued.
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Arlington, VA 22209 the entire registration fee.
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