Career

October Online Trainings

Fall is in full swing and so is GovLoop’s online events calendar! As you embrace the cooler weather, earlier sunsets and all things pumpkin, check out the online trainings we have scheduled for the month of October. As usual, all these online trainings are free, and all registrants receive the recordings one day after theRead… Read more »

10 Reasons to Invest in Your Professional Development

How far would you go to invest in your professional development? What would you do if your organization didn’t have enough funding to pay for a training or workshop that contributed to your growth? What if your boss didn’t approve of your training request? These are central questions that represent possible roadblocks, hoops and challengesRead… Read more »

Creating a Community of Practice: A Way to Engage Like-minded Practitioners for Learning and Leading

Communities of Practice (CoP) are popping up everywhere in my agency. What seemed to me to be a novel approach to learning, sharing and leading, I have discovered is an aged old phenomenon that stems from learning theory. Cognitive anthropologists Jean Lave and Etienne Wenger coined the term “community of practice” when studying apprenticeships asRead… Read more »