Leadership Development: Creative Policy Making and Innovative Solutions

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Leadership Development Creative Policy Making
and Innovative Solutions

• Presented By Representative Terri McCormick,
  Wisconsin State Legislature

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Decision Making as an Art
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From Idea to Passage The State Legislature
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Step 1. Generating ideas and identifying
important stakeholders

• Patterns and Solutions
• Data and Research
• Economic Indicators and Forecasts versus Standard
  Accounting

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Step 2. Finding the experts and identifying
goals and targets

• The Wise Men and Women-Private sector experts
• National trends versus State Needs

• Regional and Community Advocacy within the State
  Context

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Step 3. Pulling in the legal masters and support
staff

• Legal Support (Wisconsin Legislative Council)
• Fiscal Support (Wisconsin Fiscal Bureau)
• Economic Indicators and Private Sector Measures
• Private Sector Attorneys

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Step 4. Short-range gains versus long term
solutions/ Policy versus Politics

• Branch and Root Decision Making
• Policy Implications with Econometric Models
• Political Implications
• How to define the Safety Net

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Step 5. Building coalition partners and
sunshining the process

• The Message and the Art of Technology
• The Press as a Partner
• Trade Publications and Communications

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Step 6. Getting the majority to yes and
securing the votes

• One vote at a time
• Coalitions within both political parties
• Leadership versus followship

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From Passage to Action
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The Local Governance Side

• Economic Development Relationship Between Local
  Government and State
• Interregional Tools for State Legislatures
• Leveraging Assets Instead of Creating Competition

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Ideas in Action
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Health Care Costs Reforms for Local Governments

• By the year 2020, health care costs will have
  exceeded salary income
• Information from the Wisconsin Association of
  School Boards

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Three Areas of Proposed Legislation

• Total Compensation Packages Providing More
  Options for Quality Choices
• Strengthening Fair Market Practices Opening Bids
  and Experience Ratings
• Supporting Aggressive Reforms for Local
  Governments Improvements for the Wisconsin
  Public Employers Group Health Insurance Program

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Wisconsins economy-Setting the stage for change
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Industries Lost in Wisconsin

• Manufacturing
• 36
• Government Percentage of change from 1972
  16 to 2002
• Transportation
• 12
• Information from the U.S. Bureau of Labor
  Statistics

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Wisconsin Blueprint for Change A Design for Job
Growth in Wisconsin
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Small Business Regulation Reform

• Creates a Small Business Regulatory Review Board
• Requires that agencies write clear cut rules
• Calls for agencies to appoint a Small Business
  Regulatory Coordinator in each agency to assist
  businesses in understanding those rules
• Establishes a centralized, searchable website
  that will post all new rules submitted

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Wisconsin Capital Investment Corporation

• Works with professors, entrepreneurs, and angel
  networks to create viable, new economy companies
• Competitive, performance driven, and market
  guided
• Housed in the Capital Investment Corporation
  (CIC)
• Accountable through tax credits and the oversight
  of the Wisconsin Leadership Board (non-partisan
  entity)

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WCIC Economic Benefit to Wisconsin
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WCIC Jobs Created
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Conclusion

• Decision Making as an Art
• From Idea to Passage
• From Passage to Action
• Ideas in Action

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Contact Information

• Representative Terri McCormick
• PO Box 8953
• Madison, WI 53708-8953
• Office 608-266-7500
• Fax [phone]