How to Lead With Emotional Intelligence When Everything Feels Urgent

In high-stakes leadership, urgency is constant, but emotional intelligence helps you respond with clarity, not chaos, and lead with impact.

Agentic AI: A Quick Look Under the Covers

Agentic AI is actually a complex system of AI agents. Here’s insight into what that means, how agentic AI differs from other types of artificial intelligence, and what different types of AI agents do.

Hiring Smarter Under Constraints: How Federal People Leaders Can Build Strategic Teams Amid a Freeze

Investing in your people — through training, mentoring, and innovative team-building — is always important, even during a hiring freeze. Here’s how to equip your team with the skills it needs.

Building a Better Meeting

Learn seven steps to construct effective meetings that will engage your participants and yield better outcomes.

Zen and the Art of Government Maintenance: Lessons From Agile Nations

How Estonia, Singapore, and the UAE are sprinting toward frictionless governance, while others are still debugging 1990s workflows one legacy system at a time.

How to AMP Up Your Resilience

Being resilient can get us through difficult times, if we approach resiliency opportunities with authenticity, a fresh mindset, and purpose. Learn how to stay strong when circumstances are challenging.

Free and Open Source Software Is COTS: Affordable, Efficient, and Proven

Government is prioritizing technology solutions that encourage speed, savings and innovation. Open source software — a type of commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) solution — aligns perfectly with that approach.

How to Write a Condolence for a Coworker

Writing a condolence to a colleague who has lost a loved one isn’t easy, but if your message of condolence is sincere, it will provide genuine comfort.