MEI — Or Just MEH?

EO 14173 will transform workplace culture. These strategies elevate merit, excellence, and initiative over popularity, mediocrity, and complacency.

Having Interns on Your Team is a Win-Win-Win Solution

Create a win-win-win solution by working with interns.

How to Lead With Emotional Intelligence When Everything Feels Urgent

In high-stakes leadership, urgency is constant, but emotional intelligence helps you respond with clarity, not chaos, and lead with impact.

Hiring Smarter Under Constraints: How Federal People Leaders Can Build Strategic Teams Amid a Freeze

Investing in your people — through training, mentoring, and innovative team-building — is always important, even during a hiring freeze. Here’s how to equip your team with the skills it needs.

Building a Better Meeting

Learn seven steps to construct effective meetings that will engage your participants and yield better outcomes.

Navigating Workplace Dynamics at Your Agency

Every agency’s workplace is dynamic. It’s unique to your organization’s values, processes, and, most importantly, personalities and perspectives. Navigating these internal dynamics can be tricky and downright stressful, but as a supervisor, it’s critical for you to lead your team effectively without succumbing to conflict or confrontation. Here are three quick key takeaways from thisRead… Read more »

August Online Training Is Now Available

The dog days of summer are here, and the heat can leave you feeling sluggish and unmotivated. It’s time to renew your passion for public service with August’s new online trainings! We’re covering a whole slew of topics relevant for gov employees. Starting out the month with future-proofing your data and closing it withRead… Read more »