Do You Need a Sponsor or a Mentor?
Mentors and sponsors can play a pivotal role in your career. Here’s how to find the best champion for your success!
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Executive Order on DEIA in the Federal Workforce: One Year Later
The Executive Order on Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility in the Federal Workforce, issued in the summer of 2021, was designed to strengthen the Federal workforce by making sure the workforce more accurately reflected the citizens it serves.
Trouble Hiring? Develop Your People!
How do you get your mission done in a historically tight labor market? Train the people you have.
Leading With Integrity
Let’s begin by defining integrity as the quality or state of wholeness, congruence or alignment before describing its four pillars.
Building Community Through Internal Agency Hackathons
Hackathons can be valuable, community-building events within your agency. But what are they, how do you organize them and what specific benefits can you reap?
Creative Leaders Build Trust with Compassion: Solving Problems Together
Creativity is a critical — but often unrecognized — component of successful leadership. Here’s how to foster it.
Are You a Second-Guesser or a Re-Thinker?
Read on to learn how storytelling tactics can help you make the best choices every time by boosting your confidence and capacities.
Relearning How to Learn: 7 Essential Life Skills
What’s the most important skill to acquire in our digital age? Surprisingly, it’s the ability to learn. Here are seven ways to rekindle it.
Your Mindset Matters — Learn to Grow
Have you ever heard of a growth mindset vs. a fixed mindset? Having a growth mindset allows you to embrace challenges, and it encourages a drive to learn more. Here are easy ways to develop it.
USAID Learns New Tricks of Training Trade
Whatever the format, virtual learning makes it easier to develop and deploy new training in response to changing requirements.