MODULE 1

Setting the Stage

• Understanding the fundamentals
• How to achieve Synergy

 MODULE 2

What is Strategic Planning?

• Identify the three components of the agency-level strategic planning
• Benefits that strategic planning can provide
• Best practices that can enhance the impact of strategic planning

MODULE 3

What is Performance Review and Reporting?​

• Performance measurement can serve two purposes: internal managerial purposes and external accountability purposes
• Internal performance reviews allow program staff to drive results.
• External performance reports allow program staff to disclose results

MODULE 4

​​What is Program Evaluation?

• Reasons to conduct evaluations
• Identify the types of evaluations
• Benefits of learning agendas​

MODULE 5

Integration: The Federal Performance Framework​

• The federal performance framework
• How  federal performance management has developed over a century
• What can agencies expect from the integration of traditional performance management and program evaluation activities?

MODULE 6

Enhancing Performance Management with Evaluation Findings

• Inserting findings into decision-making routines
• Performance management activities that leverage program evaluation findings
• Integrating opportunities

MODULE 7

Enhancing Program Evaluation with Performance Information​

• Enhance program evaluation with the outputs from performance management
• The performance manager’s challenge: ​demonstrating return on investment for measurement
• Integration opportunities during evaluation planning

MODULE 8

Making Integration Work in Your Agency

• Challenges to integration and practical steps to overcome them
• Steps for integrating leadership
• Steps for developing a culture of performance and evidence
• Steps for collaboratively overcoming capacity challenges