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In a recent GovLoop online training, we learned the importance of cultural fit for employee retention as well as using AI to retain and recruit talent.
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If you made it to the top of the career ladder and you’re more nervous than excited, you’re not alone. To help you combat your self-doubt, we compiled a few tips from successful female leaders that will make you more confident in your leadership.
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Too much people-pleasing can affect our sanity and wellbeing and doesn’t even really help us to advance our careers the way we think it does. Here’s how you can ditch your people-pleasing tendencies.
We’ve all been to boring meetings. Some of us have probably led them. But there are ways to have better ones in the future, and we’ve got tips to help.
If you’re an elected leader, appointee or senior executive, this article will help you think strategically about data leadership.
There is a lot of focus on cultivating leadership. But leadership means much more than power and success. Learn how you can become a real leader.
If you made it to the top of the career ladder and you’re more nervous than excited, you’re not alone. To help you combat your self-doubt, we compiled a few tips from successful female leaders that will make you more confident in your leadership.
One of the key principles of design is positive ambiguity. Learn how it can be an enabler of government innovation.
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At this point, it’s widely understood that emerging technology is changing how government — and the world, for that matter — operates. Sometimes the advancements feel like a flood.
In last week’s First 5 post, we touched on three bad office habits that employees need to break. Just in case you didn’t see your worst habit on the list, here are a few more to think about.
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