Trouble Hiring? Develop Your People!
How do you get your mission done in a historically tight labor market? Train the people you have.
Posts Tagged: development
7 Ways Leaders Can Build a Culture for Learning… and Why They Should
Are your learning efforts helping you achieve your team and organizational goals? Read these simple ways leaders can build stronger cultures for learning and development.
Nurturing Learning and Development Long-Term
COVID-19 has made teleworking increasingly attractive to agencies – so much so, it might become a lasting part of their missions.
Operational Effectiveness in the Public Sector: What it Can Offer and How to Get Started
Although the mandates surrounding operational effectiveness are all intended to promote the adoption of private-sector best practices, it is not always clear how best to implement them within the federal environment. This creates an interesting opportunity for forward-thinking leaders to design implementation approaches that will work best for their environment.
How You Can Make Your Performance Goals Inspiring
Annual performance goals are generally a part of being employed but that doesn’t mean they have to be boring. You can create goals that inspire you as they help move the needle for your team in the larger agency or organizational goals.
Federal Cybersecurity Faces Setbacks Amid Shutdown
The partial federal shutdown has spurred furloughs at crucial agencies for cybersecurity, including the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), a Homeland Security Department component.
9 Steps To Get Out Of Your Way and Into Your Desires
Knowing when to elevate and level up in your career is one that will require you to “get out of your own way” and explore, just like the way we do to move our agency’s mission forward.
Phase 1: Defining a New Software Development Program
It’s a problem when an ambitious scope is used to justify a particular spend and then the scope is reduced to hit some deadline without reducing the cost.
5 Personality Tests to Understand Yourself and Your Staff
Professional assessments can be a great way to learn how people work, what motivates them to achieve and where they might need a helping hand from their peers. Here are five of our top suggestions for professional tests that help you understand yourself and your staff.
Senior Executive Pathways: Part I
Find out best practices and tips for the Senior Executive pathway into government from Suzanne Logan, Director of OPM’s Federal Executive Institute.