The Best State and Local Government Conferences
If you’ve been looking for events that can expand your education, connect you to new people, and boost your career, this list of conferences is for you.
Posts Tagged: professional development
Why Gratitude and Generosity Matter for Your Personal Brand
Being noticed and remembered is essential to building your personal brand. A lack of gratitude and generosity can also make you memorable—but for all the wrong reasons.
7 Signs It’s Time to Quit Your Job
Change is hard. Finding a new job isn’t always easy and changing where you work can bring on stress. Even so, there are times when quitting your job is the best or only option you have.
Looking for Free Professional Development?
Free and professional development aren’t two words you always hear in the same sentence. But we sat down with the head of one governmentwide program aimed at breaking down silos and connecting employees with new opportunities.
7 Books to Help You Prepare for the Presidential Transition
Don’t wait until Election Day. Dive into these books to get prepared for the presidential transition.
The Best Government Conferences of 2016 [Updated]
This list should help you plan for 2016 and start advocating for those precious professional development dollars. Here you’ll find brand new events you might want to check out as well as established events that might be new to you. Many are essential conferences that those working in government cannot do without.
How to Get the Most Out of LinkedIn
How can you get the most out of LinkedIn? Start with your profile.
Investing in the Lifecycle of Professional Development
When considering employee investment, we tend to think of helping workers after they’ve been hired. Actually, there is so much more to professional development. In truth, the processes behind targeting, recruiting, and hiring the right personnel for the right positions in your agency are the first few steps in the lifecycle of professional development. RichardRead… Read more »
How to Lead Your Team Out of a Blamestorm
Your team is talking about a tough slog of a project that hasn’t been going well. Milestones have slipped. Deliverables haven’t been delivered. Rather than determining how you can move forward together, your team is fixated on finding someone to blame for what went wrong. Tempers flare as everyone points their finger at everyone else…. Read more »
Planning for the New Year
Here are the steps I took to make sure I close out the year on a high note. What are some of the things you do to prepare for the new year?