Thanks again to everyone who attended my session at NextGen, “Presentation design for the user experience”. As promised, I’ve to a list of resources for you to help sharpen your skills as a student of the discipline: The Presentation itself can be found here. Resources Visual and Narrative: “The Lost Art of the Great Speech“:Read… Read more »
One big thing about this blog post from HBR caught my eye: The author emphasizes the role of culture in accountability. Instead of looking at deadlines and performance plans, the author suggests that a culture of accountability has to have room for failure. Projects and initiatives fail all the time, it’s a part of lifeRead… Read more »
”Creating Innovation in Government” Todd Park, U.S. Chief Technology Officer Next generation of Government Summit Todd Park closed out the opening sessions of the Next Generation of Government Summit, reviewing his fascinating path to government. Todd Park mentioned that the most amazing experience in his career has been working for the federal government. Todd Park’sRead… Read more »
***Want more networking tips? Join us at the Networking 101 section next Tuesday, 9/10 at our GovLoop Virtual Innovators Summit – free rsvp**** This post comes from top tweets made during a recent session “Overview and In depth Conversations: Networking from the Light Side of the Force,” a Star Wars themed talk on networking byRead… Read more »
Every year to their credit the federal Office of Personnel Management’s (OPM) conducts an Employee Viewpoint Survey. In 2011 266,000 federal employees from 33 large agencies, 35 small agencies and 240 agency subcomponents responded to the survey. The Partnership For Public Service based on the OPM survey has released a report titled Achieving a CultureRead… Read more »
As the 2012 Olympics get underway, it’s likely that the week-old Colorado gun massacre will be overshadowed by media saturation coverage of Team USA and events in London. But let’s not forget about the disturbing and deadly event that took place in the town of Aurora, Colorado, last week — which reportedly left 12 innocentRead… Read more »
The panel on supervisory training featured Winona H. Varnon, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Management within the Department of Education, as well as David M. Wulf, Deputy Director of the Infrastructure Security Compliance Division within the Office of Infrastructure Protection at the Department of Homeland Security. For developing leaders, one pressing concern is career advancement.Read… Read more »
For the next generation of government leaders, Nick Charney has several strategies to give your writing edge. And why should you care? According to him, “The ability to affectively communicate information is what puts you above everyone else.” With left-brain, creative skills of increasing importance in our economy, what differentiates you is the ability toRead… Read more »
Making decisions is never easy — and some might argue that it is even more challenging today because things change SO quickly. How do you make the best decisions? That is one of the issues we’ll be talking about later this month at the Next Generation of Government Training Summit taking place July 26-27 hereRead… Read more »
Here is the summary: One of the most effective ways to vault your career is by having a mentor. But sometimes you don’t know where to start. In this session, you’ll learn about GovLoop’s first-of-its-kind, government-wide mentors program and how you can get involved. We’ll have mentoring experts as well as a mentors and menteesRead… Read more »