Great Leaders are Strategic Thinkers
According to Harvard Business Review, leaders who are strategic thinkers spend their time asking and answering questions in these four areas, instead of micromanaging their workforce.
Leadership
What’s Your Leadership Development Plan?
You have to prioritize your own development if for the simple fact that no one will do it for you. Often, what you need to develop is tied to deeply held beliefs about who you are as a person, what makes you good at your job, and things you believe you can’t change.
Using Hearts to Engage Minds
Fear. Anger. Excitement. Relief. Regardless of where you fall on the political spectrum, it’s safe to say that this presidential election brought emotions to the forefront. While we reflect on the circumstances, actions, and results of the last few months, I can’t help but observe the powerful role emotions play in our decision-making.
‘Wait… How Old Are You?’: A Millennial Leadership Story
No matter your station in life, Baby Boomer, Gen X, Gen Y, Millennial, or anything in between, it will be consistently important to recognize while we may not have the same ways of thinking or doing, those differences will be what makes us successful IF we highlight the best of each and work in coalition.
What Do You Know? The Second Step in the Innovation Process
Staying in the correct mindset during this phase of the innovation process can place your innovation project on the right path and prepare the team for the next step – knowing people.
From Bench Scientist to Desk Champion: Transitioning to a Managerial Mindset as You Leave the Lab for Good
There often comes a time in a scientist’s career when he or she must face a difficult reality: in order to continue to grow professionally, he or she must transition from a life at the bench to a life at the desk, from managing experiments to managing people.
18F and USDS: Should I Stay or Should I Go?
I would encourage federal tech talent to heed that advice and see what happens. A smart, business-like administration will recognize your talent and re-recruit you to your important work of change and dramatically improving outcomes.
Guidelines for A Smooth Transition
The new Administration’s transition team has a challenging few months ahead of them. Learn what you can do as a career civil servant to help out.
Combat Complacency by Creating a Sense of Urgency
Everyone is capable of demonstrating urgency, but most organization are filled complacency. Learn for steps to create true urgency.
A Charity for Federal Employees? Yes.
Did you know that there’s a non-profit organization whose only purpose is to help federal employees help each other during times of distress? Did you also know that this same group provides scholarships so federal employees and their immediate family members can afford college?