Lead From Any Position
You don’t have to be in a formal leadership role to be a leader, because leadership is not an assignment so much as it is a state of mind and a practice.
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The Process of Persuasion
Persuasion is essential to getting things done – do you have these essential skills?
Growing Your Leadership Capacity
If looking to grow your leadership capacity is something that you need to move up or something that you are truly interested in, here’s how to get started.
Knowledge Is Like a Tree: It Needs to Be Nurtured and Harvested to Flourish
In order to stay relevant and sustainable, implement ways to document new knowledge every day, nurture it through systems and training routinely, and harvest it at least quarterly.
Becoming a Better Person
Making some summer resolutions can help you stay energized, motivated, and focused at work and at home.
Are You Ready to Help Your Agency Level Up?
We have to be willing to learn, to grow, to keep moving forward as individual contributors. If you have an idea be bold, present your idea and ask about implementing on a small scale. Start building a practice of learning and watch what happens around you.
How Best to Use AI: Human + Machine
To identify how human + machine can be paired effectively, the federal government has also recognized the value of looking at commercial successes, sharing use cases and success stories, in addition to investing in pilots and then scaling.
Develop Your People – or Lose Them
Employees want to feel heard, respected, and valued. If you don’t recognize and invest in your people, you will lose them mentally and/or physically.
5 Tips for the Softer Side of Change
You have probably seen much said about leading a team through change and transition. There are also many frameworks and tools that help leaders deal with managing change. What is less articulated is the softer side of change. Here, I am not just speaking of a focus on people. Nor am I about to giveRead… Read more »
Turn Your Data Analytics Office into an Innovation Matchmaker
To really move the needle in a way that sustainably transforms the organizational culture to a data-driven one, agencies need to progress beyond these initial ad-hoc use cases. They can do this by strategically harnessing the creativity and operational know-how of departmental staff to identify analytics opportunities enterprise-wide.