The Power and Character of “Respected Change”
How can we in government that desperately seek some form of stability ensure that successful change remains for our organization?
How can we in government that desperately seek some form of stability ensure that successful change remains for our organization?
2015 has been an amazing year. In 2009, we had 20,000 GovLoop members. Today, I’m proud to say that number is over 250,000 members. And we are serving you in bigger and better ways. In April, we launched GovLoop Academy with more free on-demand training courses. And we’ve grown our staff to provide more freeRead… Read more »
When it comes to workforce management in government, it’s not enough for HR professionals to know what happened in the past or even why it happened. To better predict future trends and their agencies’ needs, professionals need to know what will happen and what they should do about it.
Join the social media bandwagon your agency must.
Creating an innovation strategy is one part strategy, one part innovation, and the right conversations with the right people.
This interview is an excerpt from our recent guide, 30 Government Innovations That Mattered in 2015 which examines 30 government case studies that explore innovation at all levels of government. Innovations that spanned the government job spectrum from human resources to cybersecurity and back again. Security and speed are generally concepts that are incongruous for the publicRead… Read more »
In the musical chairs of life, you will probably eventually leave your current job for a better one. When you do so, you should try to leave your job as gracefully and smoothly as possible. Some tips to help you move on without messing up.
Managing the managers? Is that even possible? Government’s task: public management (aka managing the public service realm and all its facets.) This not only entails managing current systems and programs, it can also require new evaluations of management after certain crises arise. State and local governments have a critical role to play when attempting toRead… Read more »
Instead of talking about leaning in at work, we should be emphasizing leaning out — getting outside the narrow confines of our own self-interests and seeing the workplace as a communal setting that works for everyone and not just a chosen few. Let’s lean on each other for a change.
Surging population growth is not only challenging communities’ delivery of public services like water, energy, transportation, public safety and healthcare; the growth is also forcing them to deal with increasing amounts of waste. It’s estimated that by 2100 global populations will be producing three times as much waste as they do today. If we don’tRead… Read more »