Senior Management Service Conference 2007
Date : 12 - 14 September 2007
Venue : Cape Sun hotel, Cape Town
Theme : Performance and leadership development management in the 21st Century: Best practice and implication for service delivery improvement
Intended audiences : Senior managers in the Public Service
Background
The Senior Management Service (SMS) conference is an annual event and has run since the introduction of the SMS framework in 2001. A total of ±400 senior managers in the Public Service are yearly given the opportunity to attend. the conferences are devoted to presentations on key issues and challenges which are relevant to address priority issues of the Public Service. Speakers drawn from local and international public and private sectors are given the opportunity to share best practices and experiences with the delegates. the event is also an opportunity for members of the executive to address the SMS members.
SMS conferences have in the past focused mostly on current trends and dynamics with regard to the government programmes in an attempt to enhance cross and public sector learning. This was done by inviting public and private sector specialists and experts to make presentations to senior managers. the main aim of all the conferences held thus far, although they were educational and knowledge based, there was less emphasis on the consultative part on policy matters for senior managers especially on issues pertaining to their own development. the focus of previous SMS conferences is attached at tag A. Since the establishment of the SMS in 2001, the only SMS conference that focused on formal consultation with SMS members was the 2002 SMS conference which consulted members on professional aspects of the SMS. This resulted in an attempt to establish a professional association for the SMS. the 2007 SMS conference would focus on the Leadership Development Management Framework and Organisational Performance Management. Aspects such as best practice on performance, training and development, learning, coaching and mentoring will be discussed.
Demands for services, poverty relief, more inclusion in governance, new technology and management techniques, new strategies bring more responsibilities to senior managers and require complicated approaches to policy making and implementation. These require senior managers to have cutting-edge knowledge perhaps more than it is required from managers in other countries. Learning and proper consultation on Performance Management, Coaching and Mentoring, Assessment and Development Centres need to happen at the SMS conference.
Objectives
The overall aim of the conference is to create a platform and an opportunity for SMS members in the public service to convene as a group for the following reasons:
Networking
- Allows SMS members to meet with their peers and to share experiences in order to adopt best practices.
- Creates an opportunity for SMS members to meet and share experiences with international and continental speakers with regard to SMS issues.
- Creates a space for business leaders to share business practices and principles that can benefit SMS members.
Motivational Sessions
- Creates an opportunity for SMS members to meet with the Minister for the Public Service and Administration (MPSA) and it gives the Minister an opportunity to address the delegates directly and collectively.
- Creates an opportunity to meet other motivational speakers who can boost the morale of SMS members, including political leaders such as Ministers, MECs, Premiers, the Deputy President, and the President
Proffessionalism
- Develops a culture of professional and ethical behaviour.
- Promotes service delivery, efficiency and effectiveness in the Public Service.
- Creates a forum for debate and discussion on professionalism in the senior management service.
- Evaluates the new dispensation of the SMS in order to identify gaps and possible interventions.
- Creates learning sessions for SMS members.
- Reviews new developments in the SMS.
PROGRAMME
Day 1
Sub theme 1: Strategies to strengthen leadership development to enhance organisational performance management in the Public Service
Chairperson: Ms C Clark: Deputy Director-General, Department of Public Service and Administration (DPSA)
- Opening and welcome
- Ms V Petersen, Acting Director-General, Western Cape
- Keynote address
- Ms G J Fraser-Moleketi, Minister for the Public Service and Administration
- Ms R Perez, Head, Chilean Civil Service
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- Prof D Argyriades, Advisor on governance and capacity-building, United Nations
- Prof R M Levin, Director-General, Department of Public Service and Administration
- Ms L Msengana-Ndlela, Director-General, Department of Provincial and Local Government
- Round table discussions
- Facilitator: Dr C Nwaila, Director-General, Free State
Responding to Leadership Development in the Public Service in consideration of the Global challenges
- Participants:
- Ms GJ Fraser-Moleketi
- Ms V Petersen
- Prof R M Levin
- Prof D Argyriades
- Ms R Perez
- Ms L Msengana-Ndlela
- Breakaway Commissions
- Commission 1
- Organisational Performance Management
- Facilitator: Mr L Mthethwa, Acting Chief Executive Officer, Centre For Public Service Innovation (CPSI)
- Presenter: Dr E Ijeoma, Senior Lecturer University of Pretoria
Key Issues:- What Is OPM and What It Is Not - (Elements of OPM & Best Case Study Locally and Around the World.)
- Key Steps to Improving Service Delivery Through OPM (Implementation Challenges and Role Clarification)
- Linking Organisational Performance With Service Delivery Impact
- Organisational Performance Management
- Commission 2
- Leadership Challenges in the Single Public Service
- Facilitator: Ms M Nchwe, Deputy Director-General, SAPS
- Presenter: Prof R M Levin: Director-General, Department of Public Service and Administration
Key Issues:- Implications of the Single Public Service
- Key Challenges and Elements of A Single Public Service and Its Impact on Leadership
- Commission 3
- Women in Leadership - SMS Women's Forum
- Facilitator: Ms X Sibeko, Director-General, Sport and Recreation South Africa
- Presenter: Commissioner K Mashigo, Public Service Commission
Key Issues:- Empowerment Strategies
- 8 Principles
- Leadership Pipeline For Women
- Support Structures For Women
- Commission 4
- Strategies For Leadership Development Management in the Public Service
- Facilitator: Dr S Muthwa, Director-General, Eastern Cape
- Gala Dinner – Launch of the Draft Leadership Development Management Strategic Framework for Senior Managers in the Public Service
Day 2
Sub Theme: Creation of a culture of continuoues learning and development - Management implications
Chairperson: Dr M Singh, Deputy Commissioner, SAPS
- Ms C Clark, Deputy Director-General, DPSA
- Dr M Orkin, Director-General, South African Management and Development Institute
- Adv S Misser, Department of Justice and Constitutional Development
- Mr J Manyi, Chairperson, Commission on Employment Equity
- Ms S Hefele, Sanlam
- Round table discussions
- Facilitator: Dr E Kornegay, Deputy Director-General, Department of Public Service and Administration
The leadership pipeline in the Public Ser vice: Implications for Public Service Managers
- Participants
- Ms C Clark
- Dr M Orkin
- Adv Misser
- Mr Manyi
- Ms Hefele
- Dr S Senabe, Chief Director, Department of Public Service and Administration
