This fiscal crisis offers you the opportunity to hit the organization’s reset button. That is, you can use the instability of the present to build on and create an organization capable of continuous self-renewal in the absence of a crisis.

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“Innovation” seems to be the buzzword in today’s economic crisis. Many local government leaders, while aware that we need innovative solutions, are also waiting for things to get better so that we can all go back to normal. But this is the “new normal.” And this fiscal crisis offers you the opportunity to hit the organization’s reset button. That is, you can use the instability of the present to build on and create an organization capable of continuous self-renewal in the absence of a crisis.

Join us for this 90-minute interactive webconference in which Patrick Ibarra, cofounder and partner of the Mejorando Group, and a former city manager, hands you practical strategies to instill innovation into the day-to-day operations of your organization and into the fabric of its culture. You’ll find out how to get past the “we’ve always done it that way” mentality, and discover new ways to inject passion and innovation into the organization’s mindset.

Discover:

• How to overcome “bureaucratic gravity,” that prevents your organization’s leaders from using a more innovative approach to problem solving
• How to use the four-step approach of Rapid Innovation
• The three areas in your organization that should be the target of innovative solutions
• Techniques  that many local governments aren’t using – but should—to foster an innovative culture
• Ways to change the organization’s vocabulary that tends to put a straitjacket on introducing new ideas
• How to get leaders to start accepting new ideas and discard past solutions
• Steps you can take immediately to strengthen your own innovation muscles that will benefit you both personally and professionally
• And much, much more!

We'll have a 30-minute Q/A session so you'll get a chance to ask Patrick your toughest questions on how to get innovative thinking into your organization. 

Meet Your Expert Presenter . . .
Patrick Ibarra is an entrepreneur of innovation, who seeks to challenge the status quo thinking of the “we’ve always done it that way” approach and replace it with a progressive approach to continuous improvement.  With experience as a city manager and consultant in a Fortune 500 company, he brings a valuable perspective to his work with governments – recognizing their uniqueness while implementing leading edge solutions designed to achieve sustainable change and improved performance. 

Patrick is co-founder and partner of the Mejorando Group, a management consulting firm. Mejorando is a Spanish word meaning “getting better all the time” and it reflects Patrick and his firm’s approach with clients who seek to improve the performance of their organizations and the individuals within them. The Mejorando Group’s clients include a variety of cities, counties, and special districts throughout the Unites States. As one of the country’s thought leaders on ways to optimize government performance, he is an author, conference presenter and educator. Patrick has two Master degrees, one in Human Resources and Organizational Development from the University of San Francisco and a second in Public Administration from Arizona State University.

Sign Up Today and Your Entire Staff Can Listen In for One Fee
Click here to register today. The registration fee is $149 (ICMA members) or $249 (nonmembers). If you are an ICMA member, you'll need your Member ID to get the member price.

There is no limit to the number of staff from your office participating in this webconference. In the room where staff will participate, you'll need a speaker phone and a computer. Prior to the event, you will get instructions on how you will link to the webconference by telephone and on the Internet. One registration fee gives you a unique access code for one phone line and a link to the Web component. As many of your staff that you can pack into a room can attend and listen in by speakerphone.

Please note: Additional phones lines require additional access codes, which means separate registrations for each additional access code you need.

Only online registrations are accepted to sign up for this webconference. For assistance (such as to get your member ID), please call our customer care center at 202-289-ICMA (4262), or email us at customerservices@icma.org.

How the Webconference Works
Before the event date, you'll get an e-mail reminder that includes a toll-free number and your unique access code, and link to the web component. This e-mail will also include a link that you can click on to test your connection and make sure you have the latest version of Flash player on your computer. On the day of the webconference, your staff will listen to the webconference on speakerphone and watch the presentation on the Internet. In the last 30 minutes, you'll get a chance to ask questions directly to the speakers during the Q/A session.

Cancellation Policy
You may cancel your registration up to 48 hours in advance of the webconference, and transfer your registration to a future webconference without penalty. If you do not transfer your registration, you must cancel no later than one week prior to the webconference date to receive a full refund of your fee.

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