Tuning Into Mindful Leadership
Mindfulness can help you prioritize personal well-being and transform the workplace culture around you, one interaction at a time.
Professional Development
How You Can Make Your Meetings Better
Making a meeting a good one is both a science and an art. There are technical and logistical things you can improve, as well as the artful side – impactful tactics and learned skills to further engage participants and make the atmosphere of the meeting fun and useful.
Here’s How to Become the Hero of Your Career
Dr. Elizabeth Kolmstetter has worked for eight federal agencies over 25 years, and she says everyone has professional heroism inside them.
4 Ways to Become a Government Influencer
Being an influencer and gaining engagement for a project is often one of the most difficult jobs when you want to lead, but technically don’t have the authority. So what can you do?
The Virtues of Government Service: #12 – Public Service
The power invested in a single individual can truly make a difference in the lives of many. Accordingly, these powers must be safeguarded, managed carefully and not abused. With this mindset, government service can be highly rewarding.
5 Tips to Get the Most Out of Your Conference
Once you’ve landed the training money to attend a conference your excitement and anticipation might be through the roof. However, the reality of attending a conference can sometimes be overwhelming. Meeting new people in your industry can be fun, but it can often be difficult finding out which sessions work best for you and yourRead… Read more »
The Secret to Team Success: Embrace Failure
Fear of failure is a barrier to creating change and improving processes.
Virtues of Government Service: Number 11 – Ethics
Establishing strong core values will help you and your organization perform better – not to mention avoid an ethics violation, public embarrassment or worse! Here are some ideas of possible core values to help you get started.
Virtues of Government Service: Number 10 – Integrity
The wonderful thing about character and integrity, which are intimately related, is that they are one of the few things in life that no one will ever be able to forcefully take away from you.
Performance Appraisal: Partnering with Your Team
All too often we look at performance appraisal as the end of a year, a summary. However, when we flip our mindset to view them as a tool to improve communication with our teams, they become a beginning.
