The December GovFem Reading List
The holidays are great for lounging around and enjoying a hot drink and a good read. Not sure what to dive into? Check out our five favorite articles from this month about women in the workforce.
What Do You Think? – The Last Step in the Innovation Process.
The objective during this step is to explore how ideas might take form in the real world and be successful. It is about building to learn, making prototypes to understand how design solutions might work and testing to see how users experience them. Initial failure and repetition is part of the process and fundamental to… Read more »
Millennials: It’s Time to Lean Forward
We will not lean right, we will not lean left, but we must lean forward. The Millennial voice, along with many others, is not being heard or represented in our Nation’s highest governing body.
Adding More Value to Data with In-Document Analytics
Learn how you can better analyze and make meaning from in-text data.
Advocating for Yourself: Part 2
Advocating is such a pain to do. It makes us feel super-awkward. But it’s so important to be good at it.
Random Acts of Kindness
When you look for the good in others and the good that others do, you will become happier and more fulfilled as a person.
8 Tips for Job Hunting as a Current Fed
Whether you’re looking for a new challenge, feel that you aren’t being put to good use in your current agency, or just want a change of scenery, there are a number of options available to you as a federal employee when you are job hunting. Here are eight tips to get you started
Solution Framework – The Sixth Step in the Innovation Process
Careful evaluation of each innovation concept is critical to finding out which concepts ones are the most promising and actually worth pursuing. The strengths and weaknesses of each concept need to be weighed against a set of defined criteria deemed important to the project. This step of the innovation process is about assessing concepts, combining… Read more »
Status of CAP Goals, Part 2: Category Management
The “Category Management” initiative, started under the leadership of former OMB executive Anne Rung, is expanding to help the federal government buy goods and services in ways similar to how leading companies operate.
3 Leadership Resolutions You Can Achieve
Consider carving out three things that you can focus on in 2017 to improve your leadership capacity.