7 Tricks to Revolutionize Your Use of MS Excel
The beast of the Microsoft Office suite has always been Excel. Here are quick features that are sure to make your life easier, save you time and advance your career.
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Listen Up Millennials!
Are you a millennial struggling to make the transition from college to the workforce? Maybe you see some ways that your workplace could innovate their culture but you’re not sure how to spark change. Learn some lessons from people who have been there and learn how jump start innovation.
Workplace Transitions: Lessons from Veterans
Thinking about making a workplace transition but feeling uncertain about the process? Check out what these vets have to say about their transition from military to civilian life and learn some tips to making your own transition seamless.
Leadership Development 3 Minutes At A Time
New supervisors, team leaders and managers are in need of practical leadership advice that they could apply immediately.
Project Funding Is Not the Enemy
Money is a constant in all work. To start a project, get it off the ground and ensure its success, adequate funding is key. But, receiving that budget is easier said than done. Here’s valuable advice on how to handle the three major stages of project budgeting.
Learn to Train Employees on Cyber at Symantec’s Gov Symposium
At this year’s Symantec Government Symposium, industry experts and experienced practitioners will all be on hand to teach best practices and share valuable resources to ease the training challenge.
Understand Personality to Be a Better Leader
In the workplace, your interactions with your colleagues matter. But, ensuring positive and supportive connections between your coworkers can be a tough task. One important aspect of building a healthy and successful partnership is accounting for the different emotions and personality preferences of each person.
How Serious Play With Legos Can Help You Innovate
Want to innovate like a true professional leader at your agency? You might have to act like you’re 6 years old again.
Competency-Based Learning: It’s As Easy As 1-2-3!
This past Tuesday, I filled in for one of my teammates as a substitute instructor. The class was a soft skills class regarding how to complete an annual Individual Development Plan or IDP. I really enjoyed the interaction with all of the students, as always, but I also was reminded how well competency-based learning works.Read… Read more »
Change Your Brainstorm Techniques to Improve Innovation
In a lighting keynote session at the Next Generation of Government Training Summit, Josh Marcuse, Senior Advisor for Policy Innovation in the Office of the Secretary of Defense in the Department of Defense, demonstrated one tactic to combine brainstorming and teamwork into a successful and effective method to innovate new policies.