How Serious Play With Legos Can Help You Innovate
Want to innovate like a true professional leader at your agency? You might have to act like you’re 6 years old again.
Learning
Competency-Based Learning: It’s As Easy As 1-2-3!
This past Tuesday, I filled in for one of my teammates as a substitute instructor. The class was a soft skills class regarding how to complete an annual Individual Development Plan or IDP. I really enjoyed the interaction with all of the students, as always, but I also was reminded how well competency-based learning works.Read… Read more »
Change Your Brainstorm Techniques to Improve Innovation
In a lighting keynote session at the Next Generation of Government Training Summit, Josh Marcuse, Senior Advisor for Policy Innovation in the Office of the Secretary of Defense in the Department of Defense, demonstrated one tactic to combine brainstorming and teamwork into a successful and effective method to innovate new policies.
Discover How You Are Creative
Think you aren’t a creative person? Think again! Learn how you can tap into and develop your creativity skills in order to spearhead innovation at your agency.
How to Become a High Payoff Learner
In Be Bad First, the opening keynote speech at the Next Generation of Government Training Summit, Andersen explained that you can drive change for yourself and for the world if you get good at acquiring new skills. The key, she argues, is adopting the right strategies for high payoff learning.
A New Breeding Ground for Gov Tech Talent
Coding boot camps are making it much easier to learn the necessary skills to work as a web developer. Through boot camp courses, government agencies can help their employees learn new, useful skills without having to leave their current jobs.
Meet GovLoop’s New Featured Bloggers!
Read on to meet the new GovLoop Featured Bloggers, who will be posting once a week for the next three months. We’re excited to introduce them to you – and even more excited to read what they’ll be writing about.
8 Hacks to Improve Your MS Word Game
First 5 is on a mission to find the best Microsoft Office suite tips, and we are beginning with Word. These cool little tricks will save time that you did not even know you were wasting.
How Mindful Leadership Can Revolutionize Your Work Performance
In a busy work environment, it’s easy to get sucked into a culture of stress and intensity. But ignoring your personal wellbeing can be dangerous. One way to improve your mental health and improve your effectiveness as a leader is to employ mindfulness.
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