Monthly Archives: April 2012

How to Engage your Employee in 10 Easy Steps. Did we miss any?

Engaging your employees can be tough. But it’s essential, think of GSA, right now their employees are being attacked for the work of a few bad apples. Tom Fox is the Vice President for Leadership and Innovation at the Partnership for Public Service and a columnist for the Washington Post. He told Chris Dorobek onRead… Read more »

Engaging GSA’s distracted employees, Answering the WHY career question and a look at DOE’s STEM Mentoring Program

Engaging your team, answering the WHY career question and a look at DOE’s mentoring program by GovLoop Insights On today’s program for Wednesday April 18th, 2012 How do you engage your employees when they are distracted — like they are now. Tom Fox of the Partnership for Public Service has some ideas. When it comesRead… Read more »

The SEVEN Gov’t Stories you Need to Know…including the GSA Scandal could be headed to Court

The SEVEN government stories you need to know for Wednesday April 18, 2012: 21 — that’s the number of prostitutes federal investigators say the Secret Service brought back to their hotel room in Colombia. The Washington Post says 11 Secret Service and nine military personnel are suspected of the misconduct that took place in advanceRead… Read more »

GovLoop Industry Perspective: Honolulu 311 Case Study

The following post is an excerpt from the GovLoop Industry Perspective Case Study featuring the Honolulu 311 mobile app. This is part of the GovLoop Industry Perspective Series. You can view the entire case study below or view here. The Honolulu 311 Mobile App is powered by CitySourced. In early 2012, the City of HonoluluRead… Read more »

Work

Jay Deragon has written a post, Social Shifts In Thinking, about how the American economy has fundamentally changed, and not for the first time! It’s a short post, well worth a read. His last sentence is You can’t see the solutions unless you change how to think about solutions. The same day I was treatedRead… Read more »

Just Because You Can Doesn’t Mean You Should

Do you struggle with this too? It can take different forms: ‘Doing it yourself’ when it would be better to let someone else handle it. Gold plating, which is adding more features because you think they are ‘cool’. Putting extra effort towards something other than your product without any potential value to the customer. AndRead… Read more »