Young Government Leaders (YGL) and GovLoop present the NextGen Public Service Awards for superior public service and achievement. The 4th Annual NextGen Public Service Awards were given at the 2014 NextGen Awards Ceremony, which will kicked off the NextGen Training Summit on July 23rd in Washington, DC. For the past two months, I have beenRead… Read more »
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What Fixes Would You Make to the FAR? – Plus the 7 Gov Stories
On GovLoop Insights’ DorobekINSIDER: We’ve all seen an ambulance racing down the street, sirens blaring, weaving in and out of traffic. But sometimes in the rush to get to the hospital in the fastest way possible another tragedy can strike. Meet the fed who is making ambulances safer! You can find all of our programsRead… Read more »
Unpicking the Barriers to Change – Changing Through Experience
Photo by Phillirose – Flickr https://flic.kr/p/nV5A1y I was in a conversation with Sara Cretney (Organisational Change Manager) and some senior colleagues recently about change and the question came up about barriers and what is stopping the people who are thinking differently from doing different? I’m not entirely sure there is a single answer to thisRead… Read more »
Ongoing Federal Budget Challenges – Plus the 7 Gov Stories
On GovLoop Insights’ DorobekINSIDER: If you’re anything like me, “Orange is the New Black” has taken over your life. The show illustrates the difficult and fascinating life within the walls of a federal prison. The show is fiction, but the cruel world OITNB depicts is sadly often representative of what really happens in federal penitentiaries.Read… Read more »
Finding the Real Life Heroes of Orange is the New Black
If you’re anything like me, “Orange is the New Black” has taken over your life. The show illustrates the difficult and fascinating life within the walls of a federal prison. The show is fiction, but the cruel world OITNB depicts is sadly often representative of what really happens in federal penitentiaries. But there are thoseRead… Read more »
How to Improve Your Career by Boosting Your Emotional Intelligence
We’re blogging from the Next Generation of Government Training Summit. Follow along @NextGenGov and read more blog posts here. Think of a leader you admire. Now, write down 3-5 characteristics of that leader that you admire about the way that they manage and work with others. What are those words you wrote down? This isRead… Read more »
How Big is Your Cup?
Everyone has heard the stories of lottery winners who receive large sums of money only to find themselves broke within a few years. . . Or the stories of star athletes who come into financial resources and stardom at a young age and later end up in legal trouble battling severe addictions and emotional issues.Read… Read more »
Networking Pointers From NextGen
It’s that time of year again: GovLoop and YGL’s Next Generation of Government conference. Follow @NextGenGov and read more blog posts here. On Friday afternoon, FCC CIO David Bray and former president of Young Government Leaders Dave Uejio spoke to NextGen about a subject on every aspiring leader’s mind: networking. “The perception of networking isRead… Read more »
Mapping Our Social Networks
LinkedIn has a neat tool called InMaps that I just learned is being retired soon. With click of a button, it creates an interactive visual map of all your LinkedIn connections. It assigns them colors based on their similarities to each other, and you can to label those colored clusters based on the similarities youRead… Read more »
The Best Spot to be an Entrepreneur? Try the Federal Government.
We’re blogging from the Next Generation of Government Training Summit. Follow along @NextGenGov and read more blog posts here. In one of our final keynote presentations, Cristin Dorgelo provide insights on her experience as an entrepreneur and shared her version of how agencies can capitalize on the wisdom of the crowds to create new waysRead… Read more »