It’s hard to stay motivated as a government employee these days – we have budget cuts, furloughs, the media attacking government employees, all the while any perk at work (training, travel, etc) seems to be getting cut. So how do you stay motivated at work? Here’s 5 Ways to Stay Motivated: 1) Celebrate Positive FeedbackRead… Read more »
Last year, I wrote my thoughts on a number of the Presidential Innovation Fellowship projects. Personally they were fun to write and I heard back from a number of fellows that they were helpful. So year 2 is here & I thought I’d write my thoughts on a few of the projects. Up first –Read… Read more »
It’s July. Woot. I’m excited because it means Next Generation of Gov’t Training Summit is coming. For those that don’t know, NextGen is a 2-day training summit co-hosted by GovLoop & Young Government Leaders. It’s awesome – 650+ Gen X/Y gov’t leaders, 50+ sessions mapped to OPM ECQs and 100+ speakers from the best inRead… Read more »
Last week, the White House announced 43 new Presidential Innovation Fellows. These innovators ranged from for-profit, non-profit, and private sector and signed up for 6-13 month “tour of duties” to help improve government. I took a read of the backgrounds of these innovators and I have to say they are all impressive and fascinating. ThereRead… Read more »
There’s always a debate if federal government employees are overpaid or underpaid in contrast to their private sector counterparts. I find this analysis pretty weak as often you are comparing apples to oranges – are you comparing federal salaries (which has a higher percentage of college grads) to Wal-Mart which has lots of low-paid employeesRead… Read more »
Everyone has been on a conference call in their work lives. For many people, they have at least one a week. For others, 2-3 a day. One thing I’ve noticed is that it can be difficult to run a conference call well. There is no training but it is really important. Here are my tipsRead… Read more »
Great talk by Beth Noveck of NYU’s The Gov Lab at Personal Democracy Forum 2013 on how to fundamentally rethink the process the way government works with citizens and how to solve public sector problems. Great examples from Innocentive to Kaggle to Zara to Challenge.gov to truly reimagine how government works. More GovLoop on SocialRead… Read more »
One of my favorite parts of running GovLoop is that I get to meet so many public servants across all levels (federal,state, local, international), functions (IT to public works to HR), agencies (environment to budget agencies), and countries (US to Singapore to Italy). I was reflecting the other day that no matter the differences thereRead… Read more »
Recently, I’ve become obsessed with Department of Interior’s Instagram page. To me, it’s one of the best examples of government social media and it’s super simple – one great photo of a National Park per day (taken by the Department or visitors of the park). Each photo will receive between 2,000 and 4,000 hearts andRead… Read more »
The last month I’ve given a talk entitled “Do More with Less”in a number of cities across the country. In the talk, I offer 13 ways agencies can “Do More with Less.” What’s interesting is the #1 most popular idea I present is always “Fire the C Team” My simple thinking is this: We canRead… Read more »