Getting Beyond Active Listening
Active listening is often described as suspending your thoughts and judgment or keeping an open mind about what the other person is saying. Here’s how.
3 Tips for Effective Public Speaking
The ability to enchant an audience isn’t inherited, but there is hope for the reluctant raconteur. Here are three easy steps for effective public speaking.
San Francisco Tackles Barriers to Data Science in State and Local Government
Accumulation of data is common for any organization — especially those in state and local governments. Learn how San Francisco tackles its data science.
10 Ways to Improve Your Chances of Getting a Federal Job
Read these ten tips about the best way to stick out and land a federal job.
Childhood Lessons Still Applicable to Our Professional World
Although we can’t return to our days of childhood, we can choose to be mindful and strive to use the values and life lessons taught during childhood that will assist us in being successful in our current professional world.
5 Ways to Think About Starting With Artificial Intelligence
Here are five ways the public sector can start thinking about incorporating artificial intelligence, automation and chatbots.
Are You Embracing the Principles of a Modern Digital Government?
Are you just starting out with digital communications, moving paper bulletins to emails? Or have you been running paperless and automated end-to-end agenda management for years?
How Cloud Is Directing Government’s Focus to Cyber and IT Risk Management
The future of government will almost certainly be on the cloud, and as it turns out for cybersecurity, that’s a very positive reality.
Going Digital: How Public-Private Partnerships Can Save the Day
Governments should be looking to the private sector to help achieve their ideal digital futures. Public-private partnerships help governments get more from available resources to increase usability and flexibility online, facilitating better relationships with their citizens.
There is Absolutely Nothing Wrong with Data Silos!
Natural tendencies aside, integrating data in pursuit of removing silos can actually cause more problems than solve. Here are three key issues that are introduced when integrating a lot of data into one data warehouse.