Don’t Get Burnt: 3 Tips for Avoiding Burnout
Don’t just embrace the suck. Here are a few tips to combat burnout when you’re starting to feel fried.
7 Best Practices of Successful Contracting Officer’s Representatives (CORs)
Contracting Officer’s Representatives are a vital part of the acquisition process. Here are some best practices for the COR role.
Cultivating Change Resilience Within Government Teams: Strategies and Implementation
Change resilience is the ability to adapt to new circumstances, to bounce back from adversities or setbacks in new environments. Here are strategies to make government employees more change resilient.
AI as Your New Colleague
For decades, science fiction movies stoked fears that “machines will replace people.” With the rise of artificial intelligence (AI), the fear moved off the screen and into the workplace. The reality is this fear is largely unfounded, but AI is having a tremendous impact on how we work.
Changing a Culture of Lowest Price to Best Value for Coming ESG Demands
Agencies need to consider more than just the lowest price when bidding for goods and services. In the end, what bidder will provide the best value?
5 Ways to Build Your Karass
In government, a karass (a term borrowed from Kurt Vonnegut) is a group of people hidden in an organization who can help us. Everyone’s karass is built on genuine relationships, often in unexpected places. Here’s how to cultivate yours.
Where to Start to Strengthen Cyber Defenses
While initial defense strengthening involves cybersecurity awareness, MFA, and device patching, the future lies in embracing zero trust principles. As technology evolves, our defenses must evolve too. By challenging traditional notions of trust and overhauling our cybersecurity approach, we can effectively mitigate the ever-growing risks of cyber threats.
Swimming With Sharks: Surviving & Thriving a Toxic Work Environment
Swimming in “shark infested waters” can be daunting, but not impossible to navigate. Here are some strategies to survive toxic work environments while maintaining your integrity and well-being.
Catch Me Up: Where Are We With CMMC?
The Defense Department’s Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) is designed to protect sensitive information from cyberthreats. The CMMC’s implementation, though, has been a long time coming.
Top 5 Elements of EX Moments That Matter
Good employee experiences (EX) should recognize Moments that Matter — that is, both good and bad moments, some outside an agency’s direct control, that span a government employee’s career.