Coping With Confusion: Tips for New Hires
government is an incredible and complex mechanism, and [you] need to understand how to navigate your bureaucracy
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Make Your Job Meaningful
A government career offers many opportunities to find work that matters. But although you’re working for the public good, you also need to treat your career as a career — and treat yourself as a professional.
Digitization Makes Government More Responsive
Streamlined workflows allow agencies to eliminate points of friction — hard-copy signatures and procurement paper trails, for instance — and respond better and faster to constituents. Indeed, automation can make a big difference.
Long-Timers’ Advice for New Government Hires
When you’re a newbie, the wisdom of long-timers can lift the veil on the mysteries of life as a public servant. According to our experts, the most important thing in starting your government job is to embrace the complex and varied environment you’ve entered and explore it.
Build an Environment for Transformation
transformation, we often focus on the technology and expect the workplace culture to follow. But real change requires an engaged workforce.
Is It You? Don’t Manage a Toxic Workplace: Detoxify It
Workplace culture may seem beyond your control, but if you’re a manager, you’re the one who can make a difference.
Help Procurement Keep Pace with Technology
While the technology that agencies buy has changed considerably in recent years, the process of buying it, not so much. So just as government IT faces modernization, the procurement of government IT needs to modernize, too.
Use Data Visualization to Show, Not Tell
There’s nothing more transparent than raw data. But that’s not accessible to people. That’s where data visualization comes in. Increasingly, users expect data to be something they can see, not just read.
Interviews: 5 Ways to Ace Them Before Stepping Through the Door
Here are five tips on what to do before your next interview to help you walk in with your best foot forward.
Critical Conversations: Connect in Conflict
Difficult work conversations are unavoidable. Whether you’re addressing conflict, performance issues, or personality clashes, these “critical conversations” can be hard to initiate and even harder to steer to a positive outcome. We show the path for turning conflict into collaboration.