Post Highlights Understanding how to make decisions is essential to team building Leadership is essential to decision making, and is articulated in many different ways 7 strategies to improve decision making for leaders Over the last few weeks I’ve been thinking about the big decisions I’ve made in my life. Some choices have changed theRead… Read more »
As the Digital Era progresses, professionals at all levels and career stages need to develop and maintain a core set of digital competencies. These competencies can be developed informally, through online social learning communities, but they must also be developed through formal education and training programs. Academic and other organizational leaders must recognize that itRead… Read more »
Recently, I taught a workshop called Your Brand @ Work in Orlando, FL just a stones thrown away from the home of Mickey Mouse. I started thinking about the kind of lessons we can learn about personal branding from the phenomenally successful Mickey Mouse brand. The Mickey Mouse brand has withstood the test of time.Read… Read more »
Gmail is full of great and interesting “Labs” that allow you to do things that aren’t officially included in Gmail by default. My all time favorite add-ons are Superstars and Multiple Inboxes. The Google team has recently changed Superstars into a default setting, although you must enable it! I have 4 different email accounts, rangingRead… Read more »
This article was written by Logan Harper, community manager for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s School of Government’s online MPA programs. For more information on public administration degrees follow MPA@UNC on Twitter at @MPAatUNC. — It wouldn’t be called work if it were easy. No matter the work environment, occasional conflict isRead… Read more »
Last night I watched the documentary I’m Fine, Thanks. Long story short: A filmmaker travels across the U.S. interviewing people about chasing their dreams, escaping mediocrity traps, and defying convention. Simultaneously, he’s having an internal debate about quitting his real estate career and pursuing filmmaking full-time. We’ve all heard it before, many times. Don’t followRead… Read more »
I’m planning on looking at and reflecting on the principles I previously suggested here and writing a blog post for each one using my own personal circumstances and requirements to help me understand what applying the principles would mean in practice. My previous post “the ‘right’ environment” essentially looked at the principle “Enabling communities andRead… Read more »
Well, it’s that time again. New Year, New President (sort of…), New Resolutions, New GovLoop. For those that remember, it was just about a year ago this week that we rolled out a whole bunch of new changes to the site at the beginning of 2012. We put a lot of effort into building outRead… Read more »
Everybody’s selling something, be it a product, image, idea etc. [i] I’m reading Daniel H. Pink’s new book To Sell is Human and loving it. I tell my folks all the time that they are always selling to the client, to their co-workers, or to me. Whether it’s our services, an idea, or their performance,Read… Read more »
The GovLoop team, with the aid of the good folks at Forum One, is currently in the process of pushing a few new updates to the site in our continual efforts towards better usability and an overall more pleasing user experience. So if you see strange things happening around the site, please bear with us!Read… Read more »