Evaluate and Improve your Performance Management System-Maximize performance measurement through a logic model approach and an organizational maturity modelBuild and Maintain an Implementation Roadmap for Performance Measurement-Develop a roadmap based on best practices to clearly define and manage performance measurement within your organization or programOvercome Barriers to Performance Measurement Deployment and Execution-Maximize the strat...

Attend an upcoming National Contract Management Association (NCMA) National Education Seminar! The COR Member of the Acquisition Team: The Contracting Officer's Representative (COR) Guide to Performance and Quality The "COR Member of the Acquisition Team” National Education Seminar (NES) is designed to better illustrate the important role that the contracting officer’s representative (COR) plays in ensuring that the contract speci...

SAVE THE DATE FOR NCMA'S 31ST ANNUAL GOVERNMENT CONTRACT MANAGEMENT CONFERENCE (GCMC) NOVEMBER 5–6, 2012 · RENAISSANCE DOWNTOWN HOTEL · WASHINGTON, DC Join us for NCMA's 31st Annual Government Contract Management Conference (GCMC), November 5–6, 2012, in Washington, DC at the Renaissance Downtown Hotel. GCMC has long been known as the most comprehensive conference for government contract professionals. Last year's ev...

Advanced Internal Controls in Government has been POSTPONED due to Hurricane Sandy. Details on new date coming soon. Government Employees: $995 Special "Early Bird" Reduced Rates: $795 until October 12th (Federal, State or Local Government Issued ID) Includes instruction, presentations, Training Workshop Notebook, and continental breakfasts, morning and afternoon refreshments, and luncheon at the Willard.Group: " Learn Together" Registration....

Learn how to react and respond to change quickly and effectively in order to seize a competitive advantage for your customer-Find out what it takes to create an Agile environment within your organizationUnderstand the differences between a traditional project management approach and the Agile approach-Identify the characteristics of an Agile project managerExplore techniques and skills to successfully coach a new or existing Agile team-Gain va...

Establish Fundamental Knowledge that Will Help you Ace your PMP Exam-Study key terms that you will be responsible forReview the Project Management Framework-Understand how projects fit into the overall framework of the organizationStudy Each Project Management Process in Detail and its Importance to the Project Lifecycle -Discover best practices in project management that will help break your project into manageable steps

AFCEA Bethesda is pleased to announce an innovative educational symposium for government and industry participants who are or want to be on the cutting edge of smart technology and sustainability. The goals of the event are to make the business case for sustainability, show "big data" applications for energy management, highlight accomplishments with smart building technologies, illustrate saving from effective Federal fleet management, data c...

Step into Your New Managerial Role with Confidence and Knowledge-Motivate through an assertive and strategic management styleIdentify Fundamental Managerial Strengths and Development Needs-Develop effective methods of balancing the “people” and “task” roles of a managerEnhance Productivity by Effectively Leveraging Communications Preferences-Utilize Strategies the build employee engagement, commitment and trust

The amount of data used by organizations has been exploding -- 90% of the data in the world today has been created in the last two years alone, and much of it is unstructured. It's not just the amount of data that presents challenges; the types of data being collected are changing and coming from everywhere: sensors used to gather climate information, posts to social media sites, digital pictures and videos posted online, transaction records o...

Explore how to: Leverage Powerful Communication Techniques to Increase Team Productivity Improve your Decision Making Methods and Skills Effectively Manage Project Change