This webinar focuses the attention of those participating on the single most important key to a successful municipality, the relationship between a Council and their management team and more specifically the chief administrative officer (City Manager). Topics covered include: Key roles of a Council Key roles of a chief administrative officer (aka city manager) Why problems in the relationship abound Where managers should start in terms of deve...

Join three local government management professionals as they discuss strategies for addressing difficult issues with their communities. You Will Learn: What has worked for them How to you choose the right approach for the topic Hear helpful examples of concrete applications and do’s and don’ts. We’ll be using webinar tools (including real-time questions and live polling) to enhance audience engagement.

The ICMA Annual Conference is the largest annual event in the world for local government managers and staff. The tools, tips, information, and resources you'll pick up at the conference — and the professional and personal renewal and networking you'll have an opportunity to do — are more important than ever. In addition to daily keynote sessions, educational and Solutions Track sessions, roundtable discussions, ICMA University work...

Facilitation is a skill that promotes effective and efficient use of time, people and energy and provides a deliberate process that leads to specific outcomes. If you work with teams or citizen or staff groups you will gain strategies that will make those meetings productive. This workshop features multiple opportunities for each participant to practice new tools and receive feedback. Participants leave with invaluable core facilitation skills.

Discover how to foster effective decision making in work groups and teams. This workshop features multiple opportunities for each participant to practice new tools and receive feedback. Participants leave with invaluable core facilitation skills. The definition of facilitate is "to make easy" or "ease a process". What a facilitator does is plan, guide and manage a group event to ensure that the group's objectives are met effectively, with clea...

Facilitation is a skill that promotes effective and efficient use of time, people and energy and provides a deliberate process that leads to specific outcomes. If you work with teams or citizen or staff groups you will gain strategies that will make those meetings productive. This workshop features multiple opportunities for each participant to practice new tools and receive feedback. Participants leave with invaluable core facilitation skills.

Facilitation is a skill that promotes effective and efficient use of time, people and energy and provides a deliberate process that leads to specific outcomes. If you work with teams or citizen or staff groups you will gain strategies that will make those meetings productive. This workshop features multiple opportunities for each participant to practice new tools and receive feedback. Participants leave with invaluable core facilitation skills.

Facilitation is a skill that promotes effective and efficient use of time, people and energy and provides a deliberate process that leads to specific outcomes. If you work with teams or citizen or staff groups you will gain strategies that will make those meetings productive. This workshop features multiple opportunities for each participant to practice new tools and receive feedback. Participants leave with invaluable core facilitation skills.

Brownfields 2009, where close to 5,000 decision makers from the private sector; local, state, and federal agencies; nonprofit and community groups; and academia come together for the most important conference of its kind in the world. This makes the National Brownfields Conference the largest, most comprehensive conference focused on cleaning up and redeveloping abandoned, underutilized, and potentially contaminated properties in the nation. T...