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2007 CCHPO Performance Improvement Conference Materials

Thanks to all the participants, sponsors and those who provided logistical support for the 2007 CCHPO Performance Improvement Conference held April 10-13, 2007 at UVa Darden School of Business.

Copies of available presentations can be found below. For further information contact the presenter or Dr. Phil Harnden pharnden@highperformanceorg.com

"Using the High Performance Organization Diagnostic/Change Model to make performance improvement happen:
Implementation strategies and approaches after the initial seminar"
2007 Organizational Improvement Conference
UVA Darden School of Business Sponsor's Hall Charlottesville, VA

Any materials available as .pdf are hyperlinked below. (Note some of these are large files and may take time to download)

"Tuesday
April 10, 2007" 9:00 AM - 1:00 PM "000
Sponsor's Hall Lobby" Conference Registration
12:00 - 1:00 PM Sponsor's Hall --Community Room Open Throughout Conference
1:15 - 1:45 PM "001
Sponsor's Hall" "Welcome and Conference Overview: Gary O'Connell (Charlottesville), Bob Matson (Cooper Center), Felicia Logan (ICMA), Tom Towberman (FEI)"
1:45- 3:15 PM "002
Sponsor's Hall" " Building the Conference Community: What One Question Would You Like Answered and What One Asset (knowledge, etc.) Are You Bringing to Share? Hosted by Kay Hudson and Deborah Roberts Knowledge Cafe‚"
3:45 - 5:30 PM "003 Sponsor's Hall" "The Writing's Not on the Wall: How to Change Culture One Relationship At a Time Joan Goppelt and Keith Ray, NAVAIR"

"Wednesday
April 11, 2007"
8:15 - 9:45 AM "004 Sponsor's Hall" "Flying Under the Radar: Performance Improvement in Adverse Times Panel
CCHPO (Tyler St. Clair moderator), EPA-ORD (Kathy Driver), EPA R5 (Kay Hudson), AMOC CBP (Jim Platske),
Fairfax DPWES (Carol Lamborn), Blacksburg, VA (Steve Ross)"
10:15 - 11:45 AM "005a Sponsor's Hall" "Real Stories from Organizations--Local Government
Round Rock, TX (Jim Nuse & Will Hampton)
Prince William DRIVE HR System (Tracey Hormuth & Dick Murphy)"

005b Multi-Purpose Room" "Real Stories from Organizations--Federal Government
NASA Dryden (Steve Schmidt); EPA OCR (Ward, Walker)"

12:00 - 1:00 PM Abbott Dining Room "Lunch -- Birds of a Feather
1:15 - 2:30 PM 006a Sponsor's Hall "Leading Across Generations: Practical Applications FEI (Pete Ronayne)" "006b
Multi-Purpose Room" "Plugging the Knowledge Leak in the Navy R & D Labs (Knowledge Management) James Colvard"
3:00 - 4:30 PM "007 Sponsor's Hall" "The Essential Blueprint for Getting HR to HPO: Montgomery, OH (Cheryl Hilvert and Team Montgomery) Bob Matson Introduction"

"Thursday
April 12, 2007"
8:15 - 9:45 AM "008 Sponsor's Hall" "Managing the People Side of Change: Concepts and Tools--Jeff Hiatt, PROSCI, John Pickering Introduction"
10:15 - 11:45 AM "009 Sponsor's Hall" "Perspectives From Managers Leading Change on the Reality of Improving Government Organizations and Change Management Best Practices: What would you have done differently to make it work?
Senior Managers Panel (Moderated by Tony Gardner with Nikki Tinsley, Nate Nichols, Sarah Lamade, Jim Oliver)"
12:00 - 1:00 PM Abbott Dining Room "Lunch -- Birds of a Feather Tables
1:00 - 2:00 PM Optional Tour of Rotunda and Lawn
2:00 - 3:00 PM 010a Sponsor's Hall Building Human Capital Capacity to Accomplish Mission - (John Mullins) & Cognitive Edge Sensemaking NAVAIR (Craig Horangic) "010b Multi-Purpose Room" "The Leader as Agent of Change--FEI (Alfred Cooke)"
3:30 - 5:00 PM 011a Sponsor's Hall "Real Stories from Organizations--Local Government
Prince William County, VA (Craig Gerhart) & ICMA (Wayne Sommer)" "011b
Multi-Purpose Room" "Real Stories from Organizations--Federal Government
DOE Legacy Management (Celinda Crawford); NAVAIR - H1 WSSA Part II (Major John Selby)"

"Friday
April 13, 2007"
8:15 - 9:45 AM "012
Sponsor's Hall" "Katrina Operations Center Lessons Learned -Bringing Stranger Groups Together In Emergency Situations
-Establishing State and Federal Partnerships and Relationships in Emergency Situations
Prince William County, VA (Craig Gerhart) and Fairfax County, VA (Rob Stalzer)"
10:15 - 11:45 AM "013 Sponsor's Hall" "Conference Closing: Developing a Sensing Function to Support Parallel Organization Activities CCHPO (John Pickering) with CSC Palm Beach County, FL (Jeannie Deschesnes),
Sarasota, FL (Mary Sassi), North Island FRC (Mike Kelly) "
12:00 - 1:15 PM Abbott Dining Room Lunch

Depart Conference

Thanks to Keith Ray (keith.ray@mchsi.com) for his collection of photographs during the conference.

http://picasaweb.google.com/keith.w.ray/2007HPOPerformanceImprovementConference?authkey=9jTnGBxUKPs

Melanie also took a number of interesting photographs which can be viewed at:

http://good-times.webshots.com/album/558770162SrCETn