Exploring Your Professional Purpose
How do you diversify yourself through work-life balance and maintain passion for your job while incorporating new technology? Here are tips to consider.
The Art of Asking Questions in the Workplace
At some point or another we’ve all been guilty of falling into the trap of not wanting to ask questions, especially in group settings. But organizations are likely to experience more innovative solutions and improved products because of the experience sharing that comes from asking questions.
In Praise of Grinders: They Get The Job Done
Why does everyone have to move up constantly? What is wrong with staying in a place where you’re happy, and doing good work every day?
How to Master Decision-Making
How can we make smart decisions that will impact an entire team, city, or nation? To improve your decision-making skills, follow these six tips.
Managing a Hybrid Workforce in Queens, NY
Here’s how one New York City borough balances remote and in-person work … and why officials think that remote opportunities are so important.
Critical Conversations: Connect in Conflict
Difficult work conversations are unavoidable. Whether you’re addressing conflict, performance issues, or personality clashes, these “critical conversations” can be hard to initiate and even harder to steer to a positive outcome. We show the path for turning conflict into collaboration.
Answer These Questions and Be Ready for Anything
Being and feeling prepared helps us feel in control and more effective. You increase your impact when you’ve thought about what you want to say and have ready answers to these four simple yet crucial questions.
Follow an Outcomes-Based Approach for Hybrid Work
Establishing a hybrid work model is not easy — like many things in life, there are lots of ways to fall short — but the past two years have demonstrated that hybrid work can succeed.
Data Literacy: A Competency for Government Transparency
It isn’t only organizational efficiencies that make data literacy worthwhile. Fostering data acumen is tied to the core mission of government agencies: serving constituents.
3 Key Focus Areas When Changing Careers
One of the scariest times in your career can be realizing you are so discontent in your position that you lose focus on your career goals. Or, you don’t even know what they are anymore.