Insights, experiences, tips and tricks for rising through the ranks of the government ladder.
Prioritizing attracting talent over growing it locally is like running on a treadmill hoping you’ll win the marathon. Instead, government officials and community leaders should prioritize accessible training opportunities for individuals already living in the region.
Considering how often it’s discussed, digital transformation is still a difficult term to pin down. In a recent webinar, SBA CIO Guy Cavallo discussed how government agencies to transform to fit the changing digital landscape.
Developing a communications plan that leverages digital tools is one way to overcome the challenge of driving citizen participation in government services.
Breaking bad habits in the workplace is like trying to kill off those pesky flies in your house that keep coming back. It’s easier said than done.
“You’re there so they can all hate you,” my father said helpfully when I called up to vent during my first experience as a middle manager.
Top Gun federal employees are the best at their jobs. But do you think like a fighter pilot and have a career exit strategy ready?
There’s a better way to set digital marketing goals and stay motivated. Follow these seven simple steps to stay on course in 2018.
As NextGen approaches, use these 10 tips to make the most of your professional mentorships.
Discover, decipher, and deliver your way into your high-achieving government career. Use these tips to land your dream government job.
Knowledge is power, but it can be really difficult to get a handle on what’s going on with government. The key to creating more transparent government is leveraging digital technologies to make information accessible to everyone.
The first known use of feedback was in describing a mechanical process. It has evolved to be something that affects people’s morale, their relationships and even an organization’s bottom line. This article takes a look at how to give better feedback and take it.
Probing deeply into big data and pinpointing solutions to important problems demand a chief analytics officer (CAO), rather than a chief data officer (CDO). Both are essential to a smart city or smart business, but they are quite different.
How do you communicate appreciation effectively when you manage large groups of employees?
When you think about threats to government cybersecurity, you might think about hackers clicking away at code in dark spaces, well outside of agency walls. While these external threats certainly exist, it’s also critical for agencies to confront insider threats.
The size, scale and scope of state and local governments can vary wildly. But what are the biggest challenges that unite these varied organizations?
In a recent interview with GovLoop, Rock Regan, Industry Marketing Director for the Public Sector at Kronos, explained why it’s important for agencies and their missions to ensure they’re engaging their own employees. Kronos provides digital workforce management solutions for government agencies at all levels
Even if you’re not a journalist on the Hill beat, you may very well find yourself in a situation where you just aren’t sure what’s considered “appropriate”. So how do you figure out what to wear? We suggest these three tips that can help you determine for yourself what’s best to wear at the office.
One thing you always seem to need more of is time. More minutes to get ready, more hours in the day, more days before the deadline. What steps can you take to get more time in your day?
How do we navigate blurred lines between taking it personally and professionally? The answer is to be human, stay engaged, take your work seriously, but don’t do it to the point where it becomes impossible to work through your feelings.
Staying ahead of the wave of digital transformation will require innovating thinking, the right technology investments and new ways of training and recruiting the future federal workforce. But through the right learning and talent platforms, federal government can continue to deliver.
There are numerous indicators that DevOps and DevOps security is a priority for federal leaders, but is this priority maturing into federal business opportunities that require actual implementation? Weigh in.
The Chief Information Officer of a federal agency must provide innovative solutions in a challenging budget environment. Hear what these federal CIOs have to say in terms of how they’re navigating.
Office friends can provide you with support, advice and a few laughs when the going gets tough. However, if you’re a lady in the workforce there are explicit benefits to befriending another woman in the office.
The National Association of State Chief Information Officers (NASCIO) recently partnered with the National Association of State Procurement Officers (NASPO) to create a State IT Procurement Negotiations roadmap. GovLoop sat down with Meredith Ward, Senior Policy Analyst at NASCIO, to hear what they learned from that process.
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