The Force is Strong With These Agencies on Social Media
Join the social media bandwagon your agency must.
Creating An Innovation Strategy 4 – Planning Your Trek
Creating an innovation strategy is one part strategy, one part innovation, and the right conversations with the right people.
When Security and Speed Are Aligned
This interview is an excerpt from our recent guide, 30 Government Innovations That Mattered in 2015 which examines 30 government case studies that explore innovation at all levels of government. Innovations that spanned the government job spectrum from human resources to cybersecurity and back again. Security and speed are generally concepts that are incongruous for the publicRead… Read more »
A Checklist for How to Leave a Job on Good Terms
In the musical chairs of life, you will probably eventually leave your current job for a better one. When you do so, you should try to leave your job as gracefully and smoothly as possible. Some tips to help you move on without messing up.
Trip Advisor for Gov’s Public Management
Managing the managers? Is that even possible? Government’s task: public management (aka managing the public service realm and all its facets.) This not only entails managing current systems and programs, it can also require new evaluations of management after certain crises arise. State and local governments have a critical role to play when attempting toRead… Read more »
The Problem With Leaning In
Instead of talking about leaning in at work, we should be emphasizing leaning out — getting outside the narrow confines of our own self-interests and seeing the workplace as a communal setting that works for everyone and not just a chosen few. Let’s lean on each other for a change.
Change the Way You Manage Your Waste
Surging population growth is not only challenging communities’ delivery of public services like water, energy, transportation, public safety and healthcare; the growth is also forcing them to deal with increasing amounts of waste. It’s estimated that by 2100 global populations will be producing three times as much waste as they do today. If we don’tRead… Read more »
Creating and Maintaining Workplace Harmony
Does your workplace feel like the frontline? Are you constantly searching for workplace harmony? How can we ever get past that last conflict?
Making Decisions in a Time of Transition
How can new leaders quickly gain situational awareness? How can they harness ongoing processes like budget formulation and performance reporting as inputs for decision-making? How can they use and integrate expertise such as risk management and strategic foresight into actionable information?
Make These Leadership Resolutions for 2016
If you have a habit of making grand New Year’s resolutions like training for a marathon or going to the gym every day at 5 a.m., and always fail, then it may be time to change your tactics. Instead of making a personal resolution, try making a resolution for your professional life.