Reducing the Risk of Employee Burnout
Discussing frustrations does not have to be unproductive. Here is a process that can help you turn a discussion about frustrations into a plan for change.
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Knowledge Is Like a Tree: It Needs to Be Nurtured and Harvested to Flourish
In order to stay relevant and sustainable, implement ways to document new knowledge every day, nurture it through systems and training routinely, and harvest it at least quarterly.
Environment & Economy: Part 3 of 3 Ecological Modernization
Ecological modernization is a theory that the economy will benefit from moves toward environmentalism. This theory assumes that environmental problems are challenges for social, technical and economic reform rather than as uncontrollable consequences of industrialization. Like sustainable development, ecological modernization looks to overcome environmental crises without leaving the path of modernization.
Are You Ready to Help Your Agency Level Up?
We have to be willing to learn, to grow, to keep moving forward as individual contributors. If you have an idea be bold, present your idea and ask about implementing on a small scale. Start building a practice of learning and watch what happens around you.
Cybersecurity Meets Artificial Intelligence
Smart investments today are key to achieving stable footing and maximizing cybersecurity for the future. As you consider the risks and opportunities ahead, artificial intelligence (AI) offers real potential to strengthen cybersecurity operations and defend computer networks.
Lessons Learned: Informing and Inspiring Action Through Data
How does your organization use its data? Are you sitting on a goldmine that is not being used? Are you in data-overload mode? Or are you optimizing the value of your data to achieve agency goals and priorities?
How Best to Use AI: Human + Machine
To identify how human + machine can be paired effectively, the federal government has also recognized the value of looking at commercial successes, sharing use cases and success stories, in addition to investing in pilots and then scaling.
Develop Your People – or Lose Them
Employees want to feel heard, respected, and valued. If you don’t recognize and invest in your people, you will lose them mentally and/or physically.
Traditional Benchmarking Out of Reach? Try This
In our agencies, without taking a look around we may think we’ve done all we can do and are getting the best results. Or as they say, getting “good enough for government” results.
5 Tips for the Softer Side of Change
You have probably seen much said about leading a team through change and transition. There are also many frameworks and tools that help leaders deal with managing change. What is less articulated is the softer side of change. Here, I am not just speaking of a focus on people. Nor am I about to giveRead… Read more »