5 Ways to Support State and Local Workforces
State and local governments may struggle today to fill positions and retain talent. Here are five expert tips on how to overcome those hurdles.
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3 Ways to Build a Better IT Workforce
To attract and retain qualified IT workers, agencies need to rethink how they define their IT jobs and connect employees to their mission.
How Government Can Become a Talent Magnet
HR experts discuss the problems with the problems with – and their solutions for – recruiting, training, retaining and managing talent in the public sector.
Getting Motivated About Employee Motivation
The first key to maintaining a motivated workforce is understanding that it’s completely normal to become demotivated from time to time. Understanding that demotivation is not a failure, but a reality will help set the tone for how your organization responds to it.
Getting Acquisition Closer to the Mission
The acquisition workforce has been undergoing a gradual, yet constant evolution for the past decade or more as they’ve had to learn about and adapt processes to meet the needs of cloud-based technology, a growing remote/distributed workforce, agile development, and general digital dependence.
Managing For the Future
We don’t know what the future will bring. But that doesn’t mean we can’t prepare for it — and prepare our workforce to meet its challenges.
Tips for Managing the “Work Revolution”
The public-sector workforce is undergoing a revolution, said the director of the U.S. Office of Personnel Management during GovLoop’s recent NextGen virtual summit. Her agency is doing specific things to attract and retain young talent that often have little interest in government work.
Head off Hybrid Burnout
Many people are just trying to “get through” remote or hybrid work, hoping that the past will reappear. It won’t, a government expert told GovLoop recently, but there are ways to adjust to hybrid work’s peculiarities.
Get Real About Work-Life Balance
In the Veterans Affairs Department, agency leaders have devised a way to attract and maintain a happy and productive workforce. Here’s how they did it.
Closing the Cyber Skills Gap Takes a Holistic Approach, New Mindset
Bolstering the cyber workforce means diversifying the types of talent and socializing cybersecurity as a career as early as possible.