Weaponizing Team Building
As much as we promote team-building, it’s important to make sure your teams have a healthy group identity, not a toxic one. Here’s what to look out for.
Enhancing the Oral Presentation Experience for Both Vendors and Evaluators
Making the best use of oral presentations as part of the proposal process takes some planning. Here are some steps to help you prepare.
Reach More People by Exploring Barriers Across Languages
Comparative research on the experiences and outcomes of people accessing your services in different languages can improve service delivery.
How Agencies Can Reduce the Digital Transformation Burden on IT Teams
Digital transformation has made IT administration more complicated. But state and local IT leaders can overcome the burdensome complexity by evaluating on-the-ground impacts and monitoring both individual aspects of the transformation and what’s happening enterprisewide.
Four Simple Techniques to Manage Constant Vendor Meeting Requests
Meeting with government contractors outside the typical request for proposal (RFP) process can be helpful — but it’s easy to feel overwhelmed by vendor meeting requests. Here’s how to identify who you should (and should not) engage.
Unlocking the Power of Strategic Planning, and Plans, for Public Managers (Part 2) – Maintaining Discipline
A well-developed and deployed strategic plan can maintain an agency’s focus, push back on emergent priorities, enhance talent development and increase employee accountability.
Leading through Crisis: 3 Ways the Pandemic Has Transformed Our Needs in Leadership
The pandemic has changed the way we work and created both challenges and opportunities for government leaders. Greater resilience, open and transparent communication, and new approaches are more critical than ever before.
Networking With Ease
We are back into full blown networking and I don’t know about you, but I was having a hard time getting into the swing of in-person networking. After a few missteps, I’m back on track and sharing a few tips.
Transform Your Routine Tabletop Exercises
Tabletop exercises help agencies plan response and recovery following a potential cyberattack. But for these simulations to work, officials must do five things in advance.
Three C’s of Career Strategy
Career growth is a journey! With clarity, consistency and connection you’ll have a winning combination for success!