How to Spot a Team Leader
At some point during your career it’s almost certain that you’ll observe someone who will demonstrate leadership style you want to emulate or want to avoid. Here’s four styles and how to spot them.
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How to Effectively Manage a Distributed Workforce
Managing and enabling today’s distributed workforce requires more than technology. There must be clear expectations between employees and managers to ensure that productivity doesn’t slip and workplace relationships don’t diminish.
7 Tips for First-Time Managers
As a first-time manager, the key is simply to start with the basics and keep on learning and adapting over time. Here are tips on how you can grow in your first management role.
Are You a Good Gov Leader?
Think you’re a good government leader? See if you are implementing these tips from gov workforce expert, Tom Fox.
Diversity: Why it is More Important Now Than Ever
Three things your organization can do to defend and continue diversity initiatives under the new incoming Administration.
What to Expect When You’re Not Expecting (To be a Fed)
Tips for keeping your federal career on track.
Advocating for Yourself: Part 3
When you draw your circle wide, be sure that you advocate for the people in your big circle. Here are a few circumstances when you can use your power for good.
From Colombia to a Cubicle
For over two years I lived on the outskirts of Barranquilla, Colombia, in a small, impoverished township with more dirt roads than paved ones, working as an English consultant in a K-11 public school. Now, over a year after returning to my birth country, I find myself doing something I swore to myself I would… Read more »
Use a Kanban Board to be More Productive at Work
Kanban boards are a time-tested visual productivity tool to plan your work and communicate more effectively with your manager.
Introducing the Revolutionary Concept of ‘Journalism.Gov’
Govies can use the best practices of journalism to improve the quality of government communications.