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Mission

Provide support to public performance management organizations and practitioners

Draft Goals and Actions

Goal: Facilitate a common understanding of performance management BEST PRACTICES

Common language and principles

• Measurement
• Terminology (inputs, outputs, outcomes, intermediate outcomes, etc.; efficiency, effectiveness, etc; goals, objectives, strategy, etc)

Management

• Terminology, frameworks, models and theories

Best practices

• Identify and evaluate current models of best practices (probably sharing at conference — consider an organizational certification start with AGA/GASB criteria?)
• Refine or revise the specific models to other Oregon entities (i.e. from state to city/county, from urban to rural, from East to West, etc.)

• Examine programs in other locations (North Carolina, ICMA, Ontario) — share lessons learned a possibilities for Oregon

Goal: Improve performance management SKILLS

Define skills and abilities for quality PM work (both technical and organizational)

• Identify and evaluate current models of certification
• Refine or revise as appropriate for use locally

Create task force to develop methods to enhance, teach, improve desired skills and abilities

• Based on above criteria

Goal: Foster open discussion of credible performance information with interested CITIZENS

Encourage usage of GASB criteria for reporting (work toward templates where appropriate)

• Encourage submission for AGA Certificate

Nurture creation of citizen task force - "Consumer Reports" of PM's - must be independent, non-partisan, rational

• Begin with advisory committee-like role first and evolve into more active engagement and discussion of the results

Develop data on what citizens find useful and meaningful

Goal: Provide COLLABORATIVE VENUES for performance management practitioners

Group that plans, structure and coordinates meetings

• Multi-track approach (beginning, intermediate, advanced)

On-going mentoring program

• Pairing people
• "Ask the Expert"
• Technical issues
• Organizational issues
• Prospecting (look for those that have not been involved previously)
• Individuals
• Organizations

Site visit program

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