August’s Online Training Schedule

With back-to-school season around the corner, it’s the perfect time for you to continue learning, too.

Our August online training list is ready to go, with experts lined up to chat about everything from pitching innovation to leadership to managing successfully while being an introvert.

All sessions are free and open to everyone. If you can’t attend live, you’ll receive a recording to view at your convenience.

How Your Agency Can Invest in Its Workforce

Agencies recognize they are at a disadvantage when competing with the private sector for talented employees, and it’s time to strategize how to successfully hire and retain a government workforce.

Join us online Thursday, Aug. 1, from 11-11:50 a.m. PT / 2-2:50 p.m. ET to walk through the results of Cornerstone and GovLoop’s recent survey, “Is Your Agency Investing in Its Workforce?” and get use cases from agencies that have implemented successful modern workforce strategies.

You’ll hear from:

• Traci DiMartini, Human Capital Officer, Internal Revenue Service
• Wonzie Gardner, Chief Human Capital Officer, National Science Foundation
• Kirill L. Reznik, Chief Financial Officer, Maryland Department of Human Services
• Erick Allen, Principal, Value & Strategy, Cornerstone

How to Explain Data Through Visualization and Storytelling

To make data truly impactful you need to connect the dots for your audience by incorporating data storytelling and visualization.

Join us online Wednesday, Aug. 7 from 2-2:50 p.m. ET/11-11:50 a.m. PT, to hear government and industry experts discuss how to transform your data to make it more impactful.

Speakers include:

• Trang Tran, Deputy Chief Data Officer, Director Artificial Intelligence COI, Office of Information and Technology, U.S. Customs and Border Protection
• Prakhar Bajpai, Senior Data Scientist, City of Austin & 2023 NextGen Public Service Award Winner

Meeting Your Constituents Where They Are: Exploring Multi-Channel CX Concepts

With so many ways to connect with citizens, it essential to have a strategy in place for support multi-channel efforts. Are you able to keep up? Are you aware of the newer concepts and approaches out there?

Join us online Monday, Aug. 12 from 1-1:30 p.m. PT/4-4:30 p.m. ET to hear from a government expert as we explore which channels are most effective for the service or information you’re delivering.

You’ll hear from:

• Marietta Jelks, Product Manager, USA.gov and USAGov en Español, GSA

5 Tips for Collaboration in a Hybrid World

We are never returning to the pre-pandemic style of everyone working exclusively in the office. The problem is that most agencies haven’t optimized collaboration in this new hybrid environment.

Join us online Wednesday, Aug. 14 from 2-2:50 p.m. ET/11-11:50 a.m. PT to hear from government and industry experts on how successful organizations have optimized for better hybrid collaboration.

Speakers include:

• Jeffery Anoka, Deputy Chief Human Capital Officer, Executive Director, Staffing, Recruitment and Operations Center (SROC), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

How to Get Leadership Buy-In for Innovation

Innovation often gets stalled because agency leaders aren’t invested in the solution. And there could be a variety of reasons for that – budgetary, communication, implementation or even just awareness.

Join us online Tuesday, Aug. 20 from 2-2:50 p.m. ET/11-11:50 a.m. PT, to hear from government and industry experts about what it takes to make an agency’s innovation ideas a reality.

You’ll hear from:

• Jerry Hingtgen, Innovation Hub Chief, Chief Technology Officer, Office of the Chief Information Officer, United States Department of Agriculture
• Jeremy Ames (he/him), Director of Stakeholder Engagement & Data Analytics, Office of Field Policy & Management, U.S. Department of Housing & Urban Development
• Drew Zachary, Deputy Innovation Chief, Census Bureau

Tips for Introverted Leaders

If you consider yourself to be an introvert, you may have at one point come across the misconception that introverts make poor leaders.

The truth is that is not the case. Join us online Monday, Aug. 26 from 1-1:30 p.m. PT/4-4:30 p.m. ET to hear from career coach Susan Schneider to learn how get a better understanding of your own management style and how to overcome some common mistakes associated with a more introverted style of leading a team.

How to Get Comfortable With Peer-to-Peer Management

Peer-to-peer management may be the hardest management of all. It can be awkward to delegate tasks and deadlines when you might lack formal authority.

Join us online Tuesday, Aug. 27 from 2-2:50 p.m. ET/11-11:50 a.m. PT, to hear from government experts about strategies for acing peer-to-peer management.

Experts include Alex Tremble, Founder, Speaker, Executive Coach, and Advisor, GPS Leadership Solutions.