The False Pride of Use-or-Lose Annual Leave
Work-life balance is not just an indulgence: it is critical to the success of your mission.
Five Transformations for Better Learning
Whether you develop learning experiences or attend them, if you’re settling for Death by PowerPoint and days in a lecture hall, you’re wasting time and money. You can get better results more quickly by making five changes that leverage today’s available technologies and current knowledge of how the brain works.
Is Gratitude a Habit in Your Workplace?
Learn four simple principles that can help drive gratitude and happiness in the workplace.
5 Ways to Use Technology for Business Process Improvement
We’re done implementing new technology – now what? Implementing technology and improving business processes go hand in hand. Technology enables business process changes and improvements.
How to Outshine 95% of Government Managers
Here’s what virtually no government manager knows about their job.
Tis the Season: Government Conference Season
On the fence about attending an industry-based government conference? Check out this featured blogger’s top five reasons on why you should attend one.
Disability Etiquette 101
You may find it uncomfortable interacting with people with disabilities, but there guidelines to help. Person-first language can help you focus on the individual, not their disability.
Beyond Engagement
Motivation and engagement are related to several factors, the least of which is money. However, at the end of the day, productivity is connected to how happy people feel while they are on the job. But what about your organization’s credibility? Credibility is built or destroyed based on whether or not your actions are authentic,… Read more »
7 Tips to Increase Productivity During a Hiring Freeze
Working with your team to increase productivity is vital at any point in time, but becomes even more important when you know that, for at least a period of time, you likely won’t have any new members to add to your team.
Gen X: The Forgotten Feds
Today, as the nearly 90 million of our generation (in the United States) prepare to navigate middle age and beyond, we continue to face the challenge of how we are viewed and how we view ourselves. This fact is as evident in federal service as it is in the world at large.