Don’t Leave your Team Marooned Without Praise
Praise can fill your team with pride and can become something to look forward to during the most challenging of days.
Communications
Why You Need to Set a Vision for Every Single Project
Set yourself up for success and set a vision for your project — every single time.
The Top 5 Rules for Email Etiquette
It may seem basic and elementary to be going over email etiquette if you’re already in an established career or even just post-grad status, but it’s not. Email etiquette is like a health physical – you’ve got to do an annual check-up to make sure you’re on the right track, and having some outside perspective… Read more »
You’ve Got Mail! How to Better Manage The Time You Spend on Work Email
You may be in search of ways to stay focused in a world where we send and receive emails for the majority of our day. Here are my favorite email management techniques.
Top 10 Insights About Digital Inclusion from Experts in the Field
To begin to solve a problem as big as digital inclusion, first you need to understand the causes.
Beyond Schoolhouse Rock — Rethinking How We Teach Government
Those of us who work in government may not feel directly impacted by the world of civics teachers and government text books, but I’d argue they play an important, under appreciated role in our successes and challenges, big and small.
10 Tips to Become a Better Presenter in a Matter of Minutes
There is no doubt about it: presenting is tough. But help is on the way. Here are simple hacks to become a better presenter in just a matter of minutes.
How Do You Connect With Your Hardest to Reach Customers?
How do we reach the young and mobile, the recently deployed, and the skeptical? At the Census Bureau we have a few outreach strategies that may also work for other government agencies.
Make a Difference Through Listening
Listen to understand, not to speak. You will be a better person for it and others will be able to see the difference that you are trying to make.
I Am Woman! Hear Me…?
The thought behind this trend is that if women could only speak more like men, we would increase our odds of achieving success in male-dominated environments. But not everyone agrees – an interesting counter argument has risen that begs the question: should women talk more like men at work, or should men talk more like… Read more »