Is It You? Don’t Manage a Toxic Workplace: Detoxify It
Workplace culture may seem beyond your control, but if you’re a manager, you’re the one who can make a difference.
Leadership
6 Ways to Aid Innovation
Innovation can be tough, especially at public-sector agencies. Here are six ways to ease the process and benefit your organization and workforce.
Get Real About Work-Life Balance
In the Veterans Affairs Department, agency leaders have devised a way to attract and maintain a happy and productive workforce. Here’s how they did it.
10 Reasons to Invest in Your Professional Development
How far would you go to invest in your professional development? What would you do if your organization didn’t have enough funding to pay for a training or workshop that contributed to your growth? What if your boss didn’t approve of your training request? These are central questions that represent possible roadblocks, hoops and challengesRead… Read more »
It’s Almost Time to Tune In
The free NextGen Government Training Virtual Summit is Wednesday, Sept. 21. Sign up today at https://bit.ly/3BqCCES.
What Makes a Good Government Employee?
Do you know what will differentiate you from being just an employee, to a good employee?
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?
Promoting Hybrid Collaboration in North Carolina
When North Carolina’s Department of Information Technology went remote in 2020, CIO Jim Weaver learned how to foster collaboration within a hybrid workforce.
The Global Semiconductor Shortage: An Education in Resilience
Semiconductor supply chain shortages demonstrate how one small thing can be a single point of failure that negatively impacts an entire organization — but we should not accept such risks.
The Art of Asking Questions in the Workplace
At some point or another we’ve all been guilty of falling into the trap of not wanting to ask questions, especially in group settings. But organizations are likely to experience more innovative solutions and improved products because of the experience sharing that comes from asking questions.