Time, Staff and Skills Among Challenges Facing Gov Data Departments
Central data offices across government are outnumbered in staff, time and budget. Here’s what they’re trying to do about it.
Posts Tagged: upskilling
3 Ways Upskilling and Reskilling Benefit Your Workforce
“Great technologists can be grown organically. They don’t have to be hired.”
3 Ways to Harness the Reskilling Revolution
Here are three ways agencies can close their workforces’ skills gaps using hiring, reskilling, upskilling and new-skilling.
Cybersecurity Needs May Require an Innovative Approach: Outsourcing
Hiring cybersecurity specialists is not for the faint of heart. For a better, near-term solution, team up with those private industry partners who already have the talent resources while developing expertise within as a longer goal.
The Library of Congress’ Friendship-Based Model for Growth
While the Library of Congress offers resources for learners around the country, it has also been maintaining and creating new efforts to keep its workforce building their skills.
From ‘Google, Foogle!’ to Digitally Skilled Employees
The director of human resources at a local public health department shared her stories around upskilling employees and pivoting to virtual trainings during COVID-19.
How Agencies Can Support Employee Learning Now and Later
If pandemic-induced telework has proven anything, it’s that civil servants can up their digital skills when they need to. They just need the right incentive and the right kind of agency support.
Meet the Impending Federal Data Strategy Deadline: Tips to Ensure Upskilling Success
In order to meet the next set of deadlines, agencies must complete Action 4, which requires agencies to assess the coverage, quality, methods and effectiveness of current staff data literacy and data skills.
The New Importance of Investing in Upskilling Your Personnel
It’s never been more critical to ensure your team is staffed and skilled to ensure minimal disruption to your agency objectives.
What Govies Are Saying About Their Workforce Development
We polled an online training audience of about 300 attendees on five ways they or their agencies might be addressing and growing employees’ skillsets.