Career

It’s Sesame Street Simple – 6 Tips to Improve Your Agency

We’ve all watched Sesame Street at some point in our lives. Every day during the show, the puppets express a simple and achievable lesson that each of the kids watching can take home with them. Oftentimes the lessons are about patience, perseverance, forgiveness and honor. Those sound like pretty good lessons for anybody, not justRead… Read more »

Expect More and You Will Get More

Quote: “Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.” – Napoleon Hill You’ve heard the adage, “A mind is a terrible thing to waste.” It is so very true. In fact the mind is so powerful, that Neuropsychologists now believe that we get in life what the brain expects to happen to usRead… Read more »

Show Gratitude

Quote: “Gratitude is the memory of the heart.” –J.B. Massieu Are you friendly and helpful at work? If not, now is a good time to start. Always come to work cheerful and in a good mood, regardless of the problems you may be facing in your personal life or in your professional life. Express gratitudeRead… Read more »

Bucking Telework at Expense of Good Gov

It should be common knowledge by now that remote work will eventually transform the way government functions on a universal level, whether detractors of telework like it or not. However, the tedious path to government-wide implementation of remote work continues to be painfully and unacceptably slow at too many agencies. The question remains why? GovLoopRead… Read more »

6 Benefits of Telework – Some You Know, Some You Don’t

You’ve probably heard about the negatives surrounding telework plenty of times: security risks, loose agency culture, loss of innovation. One of my big frustrations with telework is it sometimes feels like we keep having the same conversation over and over again. In our latest guide, “Agency of the Future: Telework More Than a Trend –Read… Read more »

The Nomination Effect

For some people they say that flattery gets you everywhere and it can be true. Who doesn’t like to hear good things about themselves and their work? It fills the WIIFM need in all of us (What’s In It For me)—by providing for recognition and seeming purpose. Some people know how to use this –howRead… Read more »

Here we go again…Shutdown talks begin – Plus the DorobekINSIDER’s 7 Stories

On GovLoop Insights’ DorobekINSIDER: The concept of shared services has been around for decades. But now with tight budgets shared services are finally starting to get some traction. We get insights from IBM’s Dan Chenok. But up front: Shutdown showdown, part… oh, we’ve lost count. Washington is again lurching toward a fiscal crisis… yes, again.Read… Read more »

How Telework Could Be Saving You Billions

“I feel like I’ve been having the same conversation about telework since the Lincoln Administration.” –Chris Dorobek, Founder, Producer, Editor, GovLoop Insights and DorobekINSIDER. Let’s change the conversation on telework. While the workplace and technology are changing, we still seem to be discussing the same costs and benefits of telework. On the DorobekINSIDER Live broadcastRead… Read more »

How does your salary compare to national averages? 2014 IT Salary Survey

What skills are in demand? Do training and certifications impact salary? Help us answer these questions and more by participating in our 2014 IT Skills and Salary Survey. Submit your survey response by October 18, 2013, and you will be entered into our random drawing for one of eight $250 American Express gift cards. http://www.globalknowledge.com/training/olm/go.asp?find=twtITSkillsSurvey2014&country=United+States