Exploring Your Professional Purpose

How do you diversify yourself through work-life balance and maintain passion for your job while incorporating new technology? Here are tips to consider.

Data Literacy: A Competency for Government Transparency

It isn’t only organizational efficiencies that make data literacy worthwhile. Fostering data acumen is tied to the core mission of government agencies: serving constituents.

Career Planning for an Unpredictable Future

Whether due to greater flexibility, mass exodus, or values-driven decision making, careers in 2022 are anything but predictable. Since the pandemic, we have learned to re-evaluate our careers either by choice or necessity. According to a study from O.C. Tanner, 48% of employees are considering an industry career change after COVID-19 settles down (if itRead… Read more »

Opening the Door to New IT Talent

For government agencies trying to build a deeper pool of IT talent, the confluence of the so-called Great Resignation with the move to hybrid work offers a new glimmer of hope.

Do You Need a Sponsor or a Mentor?

Mentors and sponsors can play a pivotal role in your career. Here’s how to find the best champion for your success!

Trouble Hiring? Develop Your People!

How do you get your mission done in a historically tight labor market? Train the people you have.

Leading With Integrity

Let’s begin by defining integrity as the quality or state of wholeness, congruence or alignment before describing its four pillars.

Building Community Through Internal Agency Hackathons

Hackathons can be valuable, community-building events within your agency. But what are they, how do you organize them and what specific benefits can you reap?

Creative Leaders Build Trust with Compassion: Solving Problems Together

Creativity is a critical — but often unrecognized — component of successful leadership. Here’s how to foster it.

Are You a Second-Guesser or a Re-Thinker?

Read on to learn how storytelling tactics can help you make the best choices every time by boosting your confidence and capacities.

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