How to Communicate with Your Colleagues
Want to learn how to communicate with your coworkers better? Identifying their communication style can be a big help.
What’s Your Call to Action?
Learn how to develop a call to action to enhance your communication plan.
3 Easy Ways to Start Retaining Knowledge
With the numerous retirements and the hiring of newer employees, the workforce is going to look very different in the next five years. It is important that organizations have a simple ways to start retaining valuable knowledge.
The Death of the Annual Performance Review
Should your agency or department get rid of the annual performance review?
Winter Blues? Appreciation Can Help
Now that we are fully into 2017 and facing long, dark winter days with few days off from work, leaders need to take a hard look at how to support and encourage team members. This is the time of year (especially for those who like sunlight) that people often drag themselves through the day.
11 Tips on Grooming Yourself for Leadership
For some in government, January can mark the beginning of, or next step in, a plan to reach a leadership position. Here, I’m sharing some tips on grooming yourself for the leadership role you desire to get your 2017 off to a great start.
Are you Assertive or Aggressive?
What is the fine line between assertive and aggressive behavior?
Innovating Emergency Response Through Crowdsourcing
Learn how crowdsourcing can help connect the public and innovate emergency responses.
Helping People With Disabilities Prepare for Disaster
If you are disabled, it’s more likely you’ll be adversely affected by disaster than someone without a disability. We have a responsibility to take care of ourselves as much as possible, and not put others at risk if we can help it. During an emergency, things may come down to whether we’ve made any advanced… Read more »
5 Ways to Brand, Market, and Sell Yourself During the Federal Hiring Freeze
The recently enacted hiring freeze can be unsettling for all government employees. Learn how you can market yourself in order to make it through.