Your Employees are Your Customers, Too
Don’t forget a core set of customers that you interact with every day: Your agency’s employees.
11 Tips to Keep You Motivated at the Office This Summer
Summer can be rough at the office. It’s (probably) much nicer outside, your coworkers and friends are taking exciting vacations, and you’re stuck in your cubicle. How can you beat the summer blues and remain motivated for the next few months? Here are some tips to get you started.
End of the Space Shuttle & the Beginning of Commercial Space: Leadership, Change, and Private-Public Partnerships
NASA wants to concentrate its limited resources on deep-space exploration and cede lower-Earth orbit to a burgeoning commercial space sector. Achieving these two goals requires transformational change.
Making the Case for Communications in the Cabinet
What if large-scale government organizations had a single cabinet-level agency dedicated to communications and public engagement? The idea of a Secretary or Commissioner of Communications may seem outlandish at first glance, but I believe the concept deserves our consideration.
6 Tips for Keeping Your Cool During Difficult Conversations
When we think of confronting difficult conversations, we associate it with a negative connotation. But believe it or not, difficult conversations can actually be incredibly productive. It’s all about channeling the right energy, keeping your cool, and coming with a plan
Don’t Leave your Team Marooned Without Praise
Praise can fill your team with pride and can become something to look forward to during the most challenging of days.
Predictive Security Intelligence: Achieving Holistic Cybersecurity
To be effective in their security efforts, agencies must be proactive — using cyber analytics and cognitive-based systems to develop true security intelligence.
Why You Need to Set a Vision for Every Single Project
Set yourself up for success and set a vision for your project — every single time.
The Top 5 Rules for Email Etiquette
It may seem basic and elementary to be going over email etiquette if you’re already in an established career or even just post-grad status, but it’s not. Email etiquette is like a health physical – you’ve got to do an annual check-up to make sure you’re on the right track, and having some outside perspective… Read more »
TSP Talk Weekly Wrap Up
The market produced slight gains for the week after oscillating day to day between gains and losses. The Fed further validated potential rate hikes in June on Wednesday. This wiped out the gains of the preceding rally to end the day with a slight gain for the S&P500. Selling continued into Thursday but buyers slowlyRead… Read more »