Career

5 Tips for Managing Millennials

This article was written by Logan Harper, community manager for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s School of Government’s Masters of Public Administration program – a top online MPA. — Millennials are taking the workforce by storm. Generation Y, or millennials, as they are commonly called, are those born between 1976 and 2001.Read… Read more »

Low Cost FAC-COR Training is available anywhere in the United States and overseas by Distance Learning

COR DISTANCE LEARNING ACCEPTABLE FOR FAITAS You won’t find more cost effective Distance Learning anywhere NEW courses available to take for Level III: COR Level III BASIC Course $895 60 CLP Credits COR Level III Refresher…… $595 40 CLP Credits Sequestration to hit Agencies on March 27 Get your COR Certification Training for Level I,Read… Read more »

Thinking in the Moment: Three things you should drop everything for and do right now

Recognizing when and what to drop everything for and just do it is a valuable skill In my blog post on “Getting Things Done: Three key takeaways that will change your performance,” I mentioned that one of the biggest takeaways that I had from the book Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress Free ProductivityRead… Read more »

Focus on what you can do – advice for leaders

When the clock strikes midnight on New Year’s Eve millions of people around the world start planning their resolutions. For most people those resolutions fall into a few categories: health, relationships, family and career. We are going to tackle the career question here. And sometimes the resolutions are more about perspective than anything else. TomRead… Read more »

How to Make Telework Actually Work Government-wide

When the Telework Enhancement Act (TEA) became law in December 2010 proponents of working remotely had good reason to cheer. Yet today most telework programs at federal agencies still need further enhancement. Telework has been around the federal government in one form or another for at least a decade. Thus, agencies have already had plentyRead… Read more »

Obama Nominees are in for a fight – Plus the DorobekINSIDER’s 7 Stories

On GovLoop Insights’ DorobekINSIDER: There is really no way around it – the federal workforce is getting smaller. Budget cuts and the potential sequestration are forcing the issue. So what does that mean for the acquisition workforce going forward? Who stays? Click here for the full recap. The first new appointments to the Obama administrationRead… Read more »

The Federal Workforce is Going to be SMALLER – So who gets cut? Acquisition Workforce?

There is really no way around it – the federal workforce is getting smaller. Budget cuts and the potential sequestration are forcing the issue. So what does that mean for the acquisition workforce going forward? Who stays? Stan Soloway is the President and CEO of the Professional Services Council. His team has just completed theirRead… Read more »