How to Increase Your Personal Power With Authentic Compliments
Authentic compliments are an excellent method of communication that has the ability to increase your influence with your coworkers, and improve your personal power.
Your Summer Reading List for a More Successful Career
Pick up one of these books about leadership, public speaking, negotiations, productivity, and other knowledge important to success in the public sector, and you’ll learn lessons that can improve your professional standing while taking a much-deserved break.
3 Rules for Staying Positive and Proud as Federal Employees
Feds face constant change, including big changes in chains of command and our agencies’ goals and priorities. In the face of change, my best advice is to maintain a sense of pride in your work, keep things in perspective, and find ways to support your colleagues and ask for their support in return. Here are… Read more »
Skill Set Diversity: The Key to Increasing Team Productivity
Did you know that teams can be more productive than an individual if they are made up of individuals with complementary skills sets?
Transportation Today: Modern Consumer Experience
As the digital revolution continues to evolve, transportation agencies find themselves in an enviable position compared with many other government organizations seeking to engage citizens: they have a built-in, captive audience.
What Government Leaders Can Learn from Sports Champions
I believe taking inspiration from the wonderful world of sports can equip us to be better government leaders. Want to be a champion? Want to turn your workplace team into a dynasty for the ages? Here are three key areas where we can learn from our favorite coaches, players, and sports personalities.
8 Books to Help You Set Your Career Goals
Have you reached your limit with the presidential election? Are you looking for something else to occupy your time this summer? Why not use the next few months to start (or continue) setting career goals for yourself?
Improved Software Policy through Category Management Best Practices
Government must come together as one to identify our common needs and maintain the highest levels of quality in the products and services we purchase to meet those needs.
TSP Withdrawing Methods
It is now time to make sure you understand how your retirement accounts function in the distribution phase so that you can maximize your income streams as you begin withdrawing on your savings.
How to Explain Public Relations to Your Coworkers
Like all the other things we have to maintain in life – our cars, our diets, our checkbooks – maintaining an image takes time and talent. It doesn’t just happen and it doesn’t involve only one strategy.