Dear GovLoop: How Do I Get a Mentor?
In today’s column, we’re answering this question: How do you ask someone to be your mentor?
Career
From Intern to Superhero
Faster than a speeding bullet, stronger than a locomotive, it’s – it’s…the intern? As young professionals starting out, we often visualize our ultimate titles as Senior Project Manager, or CEO, or even President. But we don’t usually think of ourselves as heroes, let alone superheroes, even when we’re saving the day behind the scenes inRead… Read more »
Being Mindful Makes You a Better Leader. Here’s How
Think you can’t learn to be emotionally intelligent? You can, and there’s one thing you can practice to help: Mindfulness.
How to Ace the Presidential Transition
David Eagles and his team have been prepping for the upcoming administration change, in order to make that large transition a little less scary. In fact, he thinks of the transition as a potentially positive event.
Show Me What You’ve Got
It’s all about the show and less about the tell. Learn how you can use it for your career.
17 Pieces of Advice That Will Rock Your Government Career
Advice that will set you on the right paths for your careers in public service.
4 Key Players Needed for an Effective Work Team
Work teams, like athletic teams, require different talents and strengths. These four roles are crucial when building an effective, Olympic-style work team.
How to Be a Public Entrepreneur
Learn how to be an entrepreneur in government from Mitchell Weiss, Senior Lecturer from Harvard Business School.
Ready, Set, Go! The Performance Management Olympics
This fall you will be particularly pressed for time as ratings get passed like a baton through your agency’s process.
Change Your Brainstorm Techniques to Improve Innovation
In a lighting keynote session at the Next Generation of Government Training Summit, Josh Marcuse, Senior Advisor for Policy Innovation in the Office of the Secretary of Defense in the Department of Defense, demonstrated one tactic to combine brainstorming and teamwork into a successful and effective method to innovate new policies.