These free, educational Web Seminars feature powerful content from leading strategic management experts, and they are tailored to meet the needs of local governments. Thought-Leader Series Paul Epstein and Lyle Wray present “The Community Balanced Scorecard” The "Community Balanced Scorecard" is a new approach to focusing and managing strategies for making measurable improvements in big community issues and significantly improving the quality of life in a community or region. It brings together the power of two major sets of ideas: the Balanced Scorecard methodology and the Effective Community Governance Model. It focuses on managing a strategy involving improvement efforts by multiple players, including citizens, government, nonprofits, and public-minded businesses. Jan 18, 2007 Part 1 Feb 1, 2007 Part 2 John M. Bryson presents “Action-oriented Strategy Mapping for Local Governments” Strategy Maps are increasingly recognized as one of the most powerful tools for translating and organization’s mission high-level goals into more detailed strategic plans. This Webinar introduces strategy mapping concepts and techniques that help individuals/groups enhance strategic management, including cognitive mapping and strategy mapping. Maps clarify what might or should be done, by whom, how, when, where, and why. March 27, 2007 SAM Fundamentals and Practical Application Series Pamela Schaefer, presents “Creating a Strategy-Focused Government” This six-part series provides a valuable foundation of the key principles of how Kaplan and Norton’s Balanced Scorecard methodology (the centerpiece of Strategy-Aligned Management or SAM) can be applied to Local Governments. Jan 30, 2007 Part 1 Feb 27, 2007 Part 2 Bill Barberg presents “An Overview of Strategy-Aligned Management” Strategy-Aligned Management, or SAM, is an “umbrella term” that includes a variety of powerful (and proven) concepts to dramatically improve strategy execution, alignment and performance. This Webinar will introduce you to this powerful set of tools and techniques that help local governments improve public value. . February 13, 2007 We invite you to join this community of practice as a free guest to learn valuable techniques, tools and concepts to improve strategic management of local governments. Go to http://www.sam-lg.org to learn more. Bill Barberg Insightformation, Inc.