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Grants Performance Management

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Overview:
Focus on the unique performance management and measurement issues for grants and grant-funded programs. Enhance your awareness of performance issues relating to both achievement of program goals and effective and efficient management of program resources. Learn to apply a step-by-step, hands-on process on how to develop and use a formalized monitoring function for grants within your agency. Identify monitoring issues and tools applicable for both grantors and grantees, including elements for self-monitoring as well as monitoring of grantees and sub-grantees.

This course is part of the Certificate of Accomplishment in Grants Management.
Who Should Attend?
Anyone involved with administration of grants or grant-funded programs. Participants should be familiar with grants management skills as taught in Introduction to Grants Management (PGMT7101D).
Learning Outcomes:
  • Establish realistic performance targets
  • Provide performance data in support of performance reports that is clear, concise and accurate
  • Define and prioritize key monitoring processes and procedures
  • Establish a formal monitoring plan for your agency and more
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    Outline:
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    Day 1:
    Lesson 1 – Performance Management

    • Managing and Improving Performance in Government Programs
      • History of performance management in government programs
      • GPRA, PART, and PIC
      • Current events in performance improvement in government programs
    • Basics of Performance Management and Measurement
      • Performance measurement
        • Data selection
        • Data collection
        • Data analysis
    Day 2:
    • Performance evaluation
      • Outputs vs outcomes
      • Short-term vs long-term outcomes
    • Performance management
    • Strategic planning and reporting
      • Integrating program performance with agency high-priority goals
      • On-line reporting requirements
    • Practice performance measurement and evaluation

    Lesson 2 – Assessing Risk

    • Overview of Risk
    • mpact and Probability
    • Risk Mitigation Strategies
    • Prioritizing and Applying Risk Assessment for Monitoring
    Day 3:
    Lesson 3 – Monitoring
    • Internal versus External
    • Monitoring Systems
      • Evaluating your monitoring system
    • Monitoring Tools and Activities
      • On-going, desk-review, site visit
      • Checklists
    • Documenting Monitoring Efforts and Results
    • Corrective Actions and Follow-up
    Day 4:
    Case Study
    • Re-Introduce case study and work through a series of team exercises to identify:
      • Effective versus in-effective performance measures
      • Data selection and collection opportunities and challenges
      • Risks and mitigation strategies
      • Monitoring techniques that could or should have been applied (including assessment of cost/benefit)
      • How to plan to prevent the issues that arose in the case study


    Course Details
    CODE:  PGMT8101D
    TYPE:  Classroom-Day
    LENGTH:  4 Day(s)
    CREDIT:  2.4 CEU
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