Developing Transgender Inclusive Policies and Procedures
Transgender inclusive policies and procedures play a significant role in creating a welcoming workplace for gender-diverse employees.
Don’t Let a Cyber Staff Shortage Weaken Your Defenses
State, local, tribal and territorial governments don’t always have the staff to protect against cyberthreats. Security Operations Center as a service (SOCaaS) can help.
Weaponizing Team Building
As much as we promote team-building, it’s important to make sure your teams have a healthy group identity, not a toxic one. Here’s what to look out for.
Enhancing the Oral Presentation Experience for Both Vendors and Evaluators
Making the best use of oral presentations as part of the proposal process takes some planning. Here are some steps to help you prepare.
Give Proposed Projects a Hard Look
How do you decide which technology projects are worth the investment? Here are three ways to choose the right project for your agency.
Reach More People by Exploring Barriers Across Languages
Comparative research on the experiences and outcomes of people accessing your services in different languages can improve service delivery.
Build a Functional Ecosystem Through Cloud Architecture
There are three core pillars to data transformation: people, processes and technology. You need to pay attention to all three.
Considerations When Making the Jump to Cloud
This e-book shares the myths and misconceptions agencies need to know before committing to a cloud resource.
The Future Is Cloud: Which Model Is Right for You?
This guide breaks down the basics of cloud and how its use can benefit your agency.
How Cyber Insurance and Strategies Work Together
This playbook explains how agencies can create a robust cybersecurity strategy.
Four Simple Techniques to Manage Constant Vendor Meeting Requests
Meeting with government contractors outside the typical request for proposal (RFP) process can be helpful — but it’s easy to feel overwhelmed by vendor meeting requests. Here’s how to identify who you should (and should not) engage.
Unlocking the Power of Strategic Planning, and Plans, for Public Managers (Part 2) – Maintaining Discipline
A well-developed and deployed strategic plan can maintain an agency’s focus, push back on emergent priorities, enhance talent development and increase employee accountability.
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.