It’s been a great year at GovLoop. Our audience has grown to over 250,000+ members, 50,000+ have taken our free training this year, and we’ve gotten to work with the top companies working in government market. Great growth means a need to hire great people. In the past year, I’ve been lucky enough to sortRead… Read more »
Having the ability to lead up benefits the agency, benefits your leader, and benefits you!
How can we in government that desperately seek some form of stability ensure that successful change remains for our organization?
Managing the managers? Is that even possible? Government’s task: public management (aka managing the public service realm and all its facets.) This not only entails managing current systems and programs, it can also require new evaluations of management after certain crises arise. State and local governments have a critical role to play when attempting toRead… Read more »
Does your workplace feel like the frontline? Are you constantly searching for workplace harmony? How can we ever get past that last conflict?
How can new leaders quickly gain situational awareness? How can they harness ongoing processes like budget formulation and performance reporting as inputs for decision-making? How can they use and integrate expertise such as risk management and strategic foresight into actionable information?
If you have a habit of making grand New Year’s resolutions like training for a marathon or going to the gym every day at 5 a.m., and always fail, then it may be time to change your tactics. Instead of making a personal resolution, try making a resolution for your professional life.
Even though they take place in a galaxy far, far away, there’s a lot to learn about leadership from the Star Wars movies. And really, who hasn’t wondered which character you leadership style in most closely in line with? Go ahead and start the quiz now! May the Force be with You.
As we contemplate our goals for 2016, consider these suggestions for recognizing and navigating the stumbling blocks we sometimes put in our own way.
Oftentimes we associate innovations with new inventions that produce fancy gadgets and knickknacks. However, innovations encompass innovative thinking and produce new mindsets and processes. In GovLoop’s annual discussion, DorobekINSIDER Live: Counting Down the Top Innovations in 2015, three experts focused on ways government has been improving its management procedures around information technology (IT), procurement, andRead… Read more »