AGA TOPICS Newsletter
From the
National President
Jeffrey
S. Hart, CGFM, CFE
In
Creating Exceptional Value for Government Accountability
Professionals, my theme for the year, I've said we are going to
be guided by our core AGA values of Service, Accountability,
Integrity and Leadership. Under our third AGA strategic
value—Integrity—I've said that we always walk our talk and ensure
that AGA is the best possible role model for all the important
things we stand for.
Obviously, performance measurement and
reporting is one of those things. In that spirit, I have developed a
draft “AGA Performance Dashboard” to be discussed at
our third National Executive
Committee (NEC) meeting of the year occurring this week, right after
the NLC. This dashboard, just like the one in a car, will tell us at
a glance how AGA is progressing on our “trip”—our trip to creating
exceptional value for you. It will track AGA performance in
producing the outputs and outcomes that are most important to us,
and that will create or lead to exceptional value.
As the
saying goes, a rising tide lifts all boats, and everything AGA does
to elevate the stature of our profession comes back around to
benefit YOU! So, the more effective AGA is in advancing
government accountability, the more valuable we each become to
our employers, the more valuable our organizations become to the
American people, and the more valuable AGA becomes to all of us!
As you read this, I will be in our nation's
capital attending AGA's Fifth Annual National Leadership Conference
(NLC). Under our fourth AGA
strategic value— Leadership—I've asked us to stretch
ourselves, each one of us, to find and be the leader each one of us
was meant to be. As Stephen Covey teaches, leadership is a choice,
not a position. The theme of this conference is Forging New Paths
to Improved Accountability, because as leaders it’s our job to
find these new paths, especially in these challenging times. I look
forward to seeing many of you there! Even if you can’t make the
conference, please choose to be a leader, and forge some new paths.
It really is a simple choice we each can make.
Let's
Stay Excited!
Jeff Hart
AGA National President