Riding the Waves of Change in Your Government Career Like a Ronin
Ronins were masterless samurais in feudal Japan — and, it turns out, are excellent models for navigating uncertain job markets in contemporary culture.
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.
Procuring Your Agency’s Secure Digital Displays
Think about the large digital displays agencies use to direct visitors and share information with employees. While not traditional devices, these displays must still be protected.
Be a Better Partner, Large Businesses
The federal government has long encouraged use of small businesses and is making a greater effort to incorporate racial equity in that endeavor. But there can be challenges when small businesses team up with large firms to deliver on a contract. Here are tips to make the partnerships work better.
Why You Can’t Kill Off Passwords
Authentication factors don’t govern security; the authentication infrastructure determines security. So what’s with all the “killing passwords” talk?
Evaluate Your Lens — How to Re-assess Your View
We can compare our view of life to a camera lens. What can we do to expand that lens and re-assess our view of what’s really going on?
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.