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Project Funding Is Not the Enemy
Money is a constant in all work. To start a project, get it off the ground and ensure its success, adequate funding is key. But, receiving that budget is easier said than done. Here’s valuable advice on how to handle the three major stages of project budgeting.
Learn to Train Employees on Cyber at Symantec’s Gov Symposium
At this year’s Symantec Government Symposium, industry experts and experienced practitioners will all be on hand to teach best practices and share valuable resources to ease the training challenge.
Understand Personality to Be a Better Leader
In the workplace, your interactions with your colleagues matter. But, ensuring positive and supportive connections between your coworkers can be a tough task. One important aspect of building a healthy and successful partnership is accounting for the different emotions and personality preferences of each person.
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.
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.