Communicate with Confidence in the Workplace
Do you ever speak to a coworker and wish you could have phrased yourself better? Here are five tips on how to communicate with confidence in the workplace.
Keep It Together: The Case for Cloud Consolidation
Learn how consolidating cloud efforts can help employees deliver services to citizens securely and seamlessly.
Digital Workflows Can Be Transformative
Staying loyal to outdated, paper-based systems not only prevents an agency from getting ahead and delivering better customer experiences — it costs real money for public entities that need to watch their bottom lines.
10 Reasons to Invest in Your Professional Development
How far would you go to invest in your professional development? What would you do if your organization didn’t have enough funding to pay for a training or workshop that contributed to your growth? What if your boss didn’t approve of your training request? These are central questions that represent possible roadblocks, hoops and challengesRead… Read more »
It’s Almost Time to Tune In
The free NextGen Government Training Virtual Summit is Wednesday, Sept. 21. Sign up today at https://bit.ly/3BqCCES.
Get Fired up About Data
Agencies are launching new and innovative data initiatives, but many of their employees are being left behind. Creating a culture of analytics can bring everyone into the fold.
Data Storytelling: How to Connect Data to People
Data storytelling bridges the gap between accumulating data and doing something about it. Megan Huss, Director of the Process and Performance Improvement Program at the Center for Leadership Development in the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), explains how to make data storytelling work.
Creating a Community of Practice: A Way to Engage Like-minded Practitioners for Learning and Leading
Communities of Practice (CoP) are popping up everywhere in my agency. What seemed to me to be a novel approach to learning, sharing and leading, I have discovered is an aged old phenomenon that stems from learning theory. Cognitive anthropologists Jean Lave and Etienne Wenger coined the term “community of practice” when studying apprenticeships asRead… Read more »
What Makes a Good Government Employee?
Do you know what will differentiate you from being just an employee, to a good employee?
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.