South Metro Chapter Professional Development Seminar

Event Cost

Type	Before 2/17/2017
Members	$ 35.00
Government / Partner Colleagues	$ 40.00
Non-members	$ 45.00

Event Description

AGENDA

8:00 – 8:15 AM
Registration & Continental Breakfast 

8:15 – 9:15 AM
HOW TO COACH YOUR OWN SELF: AN INTRODUCTORY GUIDE TO SELF-MASTERY AND WORKPLACE SUCCESS  
Speaker: Peter Burchard, Consultant, Adjunct Professor with Northern Illinois University
Description: At one level, professional development is about growing each person’s core skills. At another level, professional development is about building strong teams and improving the quality of communications. Regardless of the quality or amount of professional development offered and received, many people still experience the workplace as a negative place – where authoritarianism may reign, where leaders are uncertain or indifferent, and where employee engagement remains at historic lows. In this brief seminar, Peter Burchard will present his view of workplace dysfunction and the role of self-coaching and self-mastery in building better experiences and outcomes. 
Learning Objectives - Participants completing this session will be able to:
1. Identify the characteristics of workplace (i.e., human) dysfunction
2. Learn how to revitalize one’s role and message through two parallel paths 1) evoking awareness and presence and 2) ethical communications
3. Understand what it means to be " Out with the arbitrary and in with the prescriptive." 

9:30 – 10:30 AM
GASB REEXAMINES THE FINANCIAL REPORTING MODEL - GOVERNMENTAL FUNDS
Speaker: Krisztina Dommer, Manager, Sikich LLP
Description: The current financial reporting model used by state and local governments is contained in GASB Statement No. 34, generally became effective in 2002 for most governments. This model did not substantially change the accounting and financial reporting for governmental funds, most notably the general fund. GASB has now added a project to its agenda to examine reporting for governmental funds and what information should be conveyed in external financial statements.  An Invitation to Comment (ITC) was issued by GASB in December 2016 that considers three alternatives to reporting governmental funds. 
Learning Objectives - Participants completing this session will be able to:
1. Understand the concepts of the three alternatives contained in the ITC 
2. Explore how the alternatives would impact a government’s governmental funds
3. Learn specifically how the alternatives would impact the general fund

10:30 – 11:30 AM
ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION: GOVERNMENT FINANCE ISSUES THAT CHALLENGE YOU IN THE WORK PLACE
Moderator: Lisa Heglund, Finance Director, City of Lockport 
Description: Finance professionals often encounter challenges that are new to them but have been successfully addressed by colleagues.  This session will provide the opportunity for attendees to ask questions and share solutions and information on a variety of issues.  If you have SPECIFIC issues you wish to discuss, email to Lisa Heglund at lheglund@lockport.org prior to the seminar.
Learning Objectives: Participants completing this session will be able to:
1. Identify issues that challenge local government finance professionals in the work place
2. Understand solutions other local government communities have implemented to resolve those issues 
3. Learn from the experiences of local government finance professionals who have encountered similar or the same issues.

11:45 AM – 12:45 PM
LEGISLATIVE UPDATE  
Speaker: William D. McCarty, Director - Office of Budget and Management, City of Springfield
Description: Participants will hear updates on State legislative matters relevant to Illinois local governments.
Learning Objectives - Participants completing this session will be able to:
1. Gain knowledge of new Illinois Public Acts significantly affecting local governments
2. Understand pending Illinois General Assembly legislative proposals that may significantly impact local governments
3. Become familiar with the status of State budget issues and how Illinois local government revenues may be affected.

1:00 – 1:30 PM
CLOSING REMARKS AND LUNCH

Intended Audience: Finance Professionals
Delivery method:  Group-live
Program Level: Overview
Prerequisites: No prerequisites required 
Advanced Preparation: No advanced preparation required
Field of Study: Accounting (Governmental), Personal Development, Finance
Earn about 4.8 CPE credit

Presented by the South metro chapter