AWWA Effective Utility Management Seminar
This two-day seminar presents important information for utility managers interested in recent updates to the 2008 Effective Utility Management (EUM) framework, originally developed by water sector leaders in 2008 featuring both the “Ten Attributes of an Effectively Managed Utility” and “Five Keys to Management Success.”
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
- How EUM can fit into your utility’s management practices.
- How to use a tool based on the Ten Attributes to assess strengths and identify areas for improvement.
About the relationship between EUM and the best practices of continual improvement including Deming’s P-D-C-A. - How to link your EUM priorities to strategic goals and objectives.
- How to develop and use SMART measures to track and report your progress.
- About the practices and programs that other utilities are using to capture and manage organizational knowledge.
- How utility managers are tackling the leadership challenges of the day in the water sector.
- How the EUM framework has been incorporated into a variety of tools and programs
- How to access the wealth of resources to help your utility improve
WHO ATTENDS
- Utility leaders (executives, directors, general managers, and top level assistants and deputies) from large, medium, and small systems
- Utility managers across the major functions of a utility -Admin/HR, operations, customer service, finance, and engineering/planning
- Utility governance -- board members, commissioners, etc.
State primacy agency staff who work with utility managers on capacity development (financial, managerial, technical) - Consultants who work with all of the above
EFFECTIVE UTILITY MANAGEMENT SEMINAR AT-A-GLANCE |
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Day One (7 Credit Hours) | |
7:30 - 8:00 a.m. | Registration Open |
8:00 - 9:00 a.m. | Introduction to Effective Utility Management (EUM) Ten Attributes of an Effectively Managed Utility and Five Keys to Management Success |
9:00 - 10:15 a.m. | Focus on the Attributes - Assessing Current Condition |
10:15 - 10:30 a.m. | Break |
10:30 - 11:30 a.m. | Identifying Area for Improvement |
11:30 a.m. - noon | Keys in Action: Intro to Continual Improvement Framework |
noon - 1:00 p.m. | Lunch (Included) |
1:00 - 2:15 p.m. | Keys in Action: Intro to Strategic Business Planning |
2:15 - 2:30 p.m. | Break |
2:30 - 4:30 p.m. | Linking EUM Priorities to Strategic Goals and Objectives |
Day Two (7 Credit Hours) |
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8:30 - 10:15 a.m. | Keys in Action: Intro to Measurement |
10:15 - 10:30 a.m. | Break |
10:30 - 11:30 a.m. | Using SMART Measures to track and report progress |
11:30 a.m. - noon | Special Topic: Other uses of EUM (benchmarking, small systems, etc.) |
noon - 1:00 p.m. | Lunch (Included) |
1:00 - 2:15 p.m. | Keys in Action: Intro to Knowledge Management |
2:15 - 2:30 p.m. | Break |
2:30 - 4:00 p.m. | Keys in Action: Intro to Leadership |
4:00 - 4:30 p.m. | Resources to Get You Started |
Speaker and Presenter Information
Jim Ginley has worked for nearly 30 years in the municipal water utility sector, including more than 16 years on the headquarters staff of AWWA and more than 12 years as a water utility management and regulatory compliance consultant. He has a broad-based background that touches all areas of the public water sector, from regulations and training, to operations and management of municipal and privately owned water and wastewater agencies, both in North America and overseas.
Ginley is active in both the American Water Works Association (AWWA) and the Water Environment Federation (WEF), including: past chair and a continuing member of the AWWA Strategic Management Practices Committee; member of the AWWA Water Utility Benchmarking Advisory Committee; member of the WEF Utility Management Committee and served as the co-chair of the 2014 AWWA/WEF Utility Management Conference; and created, chaired, and remains a member of the Rocky Mountain AWWA/WEA Joint Utility Management Committee. Ginley has been published in Journal AWWA, co-authored an AWWA guide book on the AWWA/ANSI Utility Management System Standard (G-400), and authored a chapter in an award-winning water sector anthology, “Damned if We Don’t: Ideas for Accelerating Change around Water.”
Relevant Government Agencies
State Government, County Government, City Government, Municipal Government, State & Local Government
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When
Mon-Tue, May 7-8, 2018
Cost
Member Rate: | $675.00 |
Non Member Rate: | $875.00 |
Where
Water District Number One
7601 Holliday Dr.
Kansas City, KS 66106
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Website
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Organizer
American Water Works Association
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