Four Ways to Bring Emotional Smarts to Your Job
A recent study has found that employees with emotionally intelligent bosses tend to be happier and more effective.
Leadership
Are People at the Center of Your Modernization Efforts?
The phrase “government modernization” can seem to lack urgency — until you consider how it impacts people.
What Digital Transformation Starts With
For many people, the first and only interactions they have with a government agency are through its website, and good first impressions can go a long way.
5 Management Lessons From ‘The Devil Wears Prada’s’ Miranda Priestly
Have you ever considered if she actually had some worthy management skills? Well, I did, using the gold standard of management principles.
3 Reasons to Grow Your Emotional Intelligence
Emotional intelligence has broken through as a crucial quality for government employees.
Unleash Creativity by Rightsizing Productivity
Productivity doesn’t need to come at the expense of creativity.
The Innovation Mindset
Here are seven steps for shifting your agency’s culture into a mindset of continuous innovation for its mission, workforce and constituents.
3 Ways to Increase Adoption of Your Next Government Strategy
Every few years, after a long and often tedious process, government agencies create new and much-heralded strategic plans — but, too often, new approaches stall because stakeholders don’t buy in. Here are three ways to change that.
5 Tips for Pitching New Ideas
While you won’t get takers on every idea you have, you can improve the odds that innovation will find a foothold.
How to Convey Your Value at Work, for Real
The workplace can be tough, and it can be hard to prove your value to managers and co-workers, especially as you’re climbing the ranks of government. Need some ideas? Here’s point-by-point guidance from a government expert in the know.