Communities of Practice: An Amazing Tool for Your Toolbox
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Posts Tagged: collaboration
Pushing Category Management Forward: 4 Practical Next Steps
In the spring of 2018, OMB released a memo instructing agencies on steps they need to take to comply with the White House’s Category Management initiative. Here’s what agencies should do.
All About the Dockless Scooter Invasion
How are cities are coping with the balance of popularity and safety of dockless devices?
Guiding a Group Through a Problem-Solving Session
Dealing with the “how” of creating an event that gets everyone engaged in co-creating a solution.
How to Promote Collaboration with Your Team
What can you do as a leader to promote a collaborative environment?
6 Questions to Help Ensure Your Personal Work Goals are Designed to Succeed
Whether you’ve helped create your goals or they’ve been handed to you, ask yourself the following questions to help ensure they are the right goals for you and your organization. You can then use this info to have an informative discussion with your manager about your goals.
3 Ways Leaders Can Create a Seriously Engaged Team
As a team leader, it will be your job (along with a facilitator) to guard against allowing the team to get stuck in this zone of familiarity. But how do you challenge your team while supporting and encouraging them to pursue thinking more deeply about the problem?
Learning as You Go, Part 1: Planning a National Public Sector Conference
How do you even begin to plan an event that is relevant to government (three levels), academic and not-for-profit stakeholders across 13 provinces/territories in a massive country?
Inspiring Your Team to Solve Problems: Why We Fail and Tips for Better Engagement
After trying different approaches, I discovered a framework and techniques that improved my meeting outcomes and fostering of team collaboration.
The Impact of Shutdowns on Workplace Efficiency and Morale
It is my concern, over a period of years, there have been a series of events which are affecting the attitudes of those workers we depend on to keep our country operating.