Reflections on Retirement with Angela Bailey
In her latest Management Minutes with Mika video, government workforce expert Mika Cross interviews Angela Bailey, a career civil servant.
How to Be the Queen on the Chessboard
While other chess pieces have their limitations, the queen can navigate freely in all directions — forwards, backwards, diagonally — and cross any distance. Here’s how to translate that into your workplace experiences.
October Online Training Opportunities
Join us for these professional development opportunities in October.
Let’s Start the Contract With a Great Kick-off
In federal contracting, a post-award orientation is commonly called a “kick-off” and is an important way to ensure that contractors perform the work they should.
Put Observability to Work
This playbook explains how a modernized approach to observability can help troubleshoot and remediate IT issues faster.
Cybersecurity Challenges and Opportunities for Local Government
Addressing cybersecurity vulnerabilities in local government entities is crucial to protecting sensitive data and critical services. Federal grant funding can help.
3 Pain Points of IT Management
This resource discusses the benefits of automation and best practices for implementing this technology.
Consolidating Your Cybersecurity Platforms
This resource explains how consolidation can protect an organization’s networks, clouds, data and endpoints from cyber assaults.
Driving Interoperability: Healthcare’s Approach
Data sharing is critical in every facet of government, from the intelligence community to social services to infrastructure management. The management and response to the COVID-19 pandemic underscored the significant need for enhanced data sharing capabilities across government organizations to enable faster, more well-informed decision-making.
Mapping Assists Thousands Counting LA County’s Homeless Population
A modern approach to data collection, powered by geographic information system technology, helped Los Angeles County better track its homeless population.
Analytics Innovations Draw a Complete Data Picture
Organizations must curtail their use of manual systems and leverage all available data, structured and unstructured.
How to Get IT to Say “Yes”
Approvals from the IT department can be slow in coming. Learn strategies to increase your chances of hearing “yes” on your next request.
For North Dakota, the Pandemic Kickstarted a Transition to Digital Work
When governments nationwide had to switch to remote work nearly overnight, North Dakota’s technology office met the challenge of supporting and equipping 8,000 state employees who were suddenly working at home. Here’s what they learned.
5 Success Skills for New Hires
When an agency hires you, it wants you to succeed. That’s why agencies have employee manuals, organization charts and onboarding processes. But new hires need to do some of the legwork, too.
Make Your Job Meaningful
A government career offers many opportunities to find work that matters. But although you’re working for the public good, you also need to treat your career as a career — and treat yourself as a professional.
How One State Advances Cyber Protection
The everyday functions of government — and the services that agencies provide constituents — depend on strong cybersecurity protections. One state’s plan for disaster recovery helped it respond effectively to 23 simultaneous ransomware attacks. But the state has more in mind than that.
How to Take Some of the Hard Work out of Cloud Security
Configuration management is critical to cloud security because many products come with default settings that do not provide adequate security.
In Chicago, Collaboration Makes Early Childcare Better
Agencies often lack reliable, real-time data that can help them solve critical problems. In Chicago, officials used the cloud to bring early childhood care to underserved demographics.
Long-Timers’ Advice for New Government Hires
When you’re a newbie, the wisdom of long-timers can lift the veil on the mysteries of life as a public servant. According to our experts, the most important thing in starting your government job is to embrace the complex and varied environment you’ve entered and explore it.
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.