Emily Jarvis

Emily Jarvis wrote a new post, Don’t Be the Dunce, Become an Engaged Learner, on the site GovLoop 2 weeks, 3 days ago

In every teenage movie, there are those cool kids that sit in the back of class, texting each other and generally ignoring the teacher in the front of the room. Those cool kids are the exact opposite of an engaged […]
Emily Jarvis commented on the post, 3 More Bad Workplace Habits You Need to Break, on the site GovLoop 1 month, 1 week ago

I have definitely been guilty of breaking a few of these bad habits.
Emily Jarvis wrote a new post, Unveiling the NextGen Public Service Award Finalists, on the site GovLoop 1 month, 2 weeks ago

It’s time to roll out the red carpet, because the NextGen Public Service Award Finalists have just been named!

Each year, our NextGen Public Service Awards recognize public servants who have gone above and bey […]
- Nya Jackson replied 1 month, 1 week ago
  
  Congrats to all the finalist! So many diverse roles and achievements.
Emily Jarvis wrote a new post, Introducing Govie of the Month – Nominate Someone Today, on the site GovLoop 5 months, 3 weeks ago

Tis the season for giving thanks!

We know it’s sometimes hard to be a government employee since there aren’t a ton of opportunities for praise. But that’s about to change.

GovLoop launched our Govie of the M […]
Emily Jarvis wrote a new post, How to Climb the Gov Career Ladder, on the site GovLoop 7 months, 2 weeks ago

We are nearing the holiday season, and for many of us that means heading home to face a family of loving inquisitors. They want to know when you’re getting married. Do you want kids? How is your job? Are you a m […]
Emily Jarvis wrote a new post, NASA: Reframing Risk With Curiosity, on the site GovLoop 7 months, 3 weeks ago

Risk is more than a four-letter word in government. There’s often wariness about taking on too much risk, which is understandable, because agencies are playing with hard-earned taxpayer dollars. And it’s not lik […]
Emily Jarvis wrote a new post, NextGen Keynotes Announced!, on the site GovLoop 11 months, 3 weeks ago

The Next Generation of Government Training Summit is less than two months away and we hope you are as excited as we are! Not only will you network with over 800 federal, state and local govies from more than 75 o […]
Emily Jarvis wrote a new post, 5 Attributes of a Great Mentor – Do You Fit the Bill?, on the site GovLoop 1 year, 3 months ago

Mentorship. The word is gaining a lot of traction in the public sector and is clearly a buzzword in 2017. But despite all the buzz, a lot of confusion surrounds what a mentor actually does.

So what makes a […]
- Joe Raasch replied 1 year, 3 months ago
  
  These are great attributes Emily – thanks for sharing! Mentorship programs are only as strong as the people that become mentors. If your organization has a formal mentorship program, find out how the vet people that become mentors. Often times it is simply those that volunteer – and are not necessarily the best mentors (see Emily’s article above).
- Edward J. McDonough replied 1 year, 3 months ago
  
  Please do not overlook the importance of informal mentorship. The attributes are the same, just without the formal program. I work for a small state agency (about 70 employees) with no formal program. But in my team of six, four of my 5 colleagues, including my boss, are all younger than my oldest kid. The 5th person is still a good 15 years younger than me. I take my informal role of mentoring them and helping them develop very seriously. We have great team dynamics. They appreciate my experience and advice and I love the energy and innovation they bring to the table. You don’t need a formal program to be an effective mentor.
- William Tewelow replied 1 year, 3 months ago
  
  Great article Emily,
  We are practicing those traits in our mentor program and I am forwarding your article to the others mentors.
Emily Jarvis wrote a new post, Making ECM a Priority, on the site GovLoop 1 year, 4 months ago

This interview is an excerpt from GovLoop’s recent guide, Innovations that Mattered in 2016. Download the full guide here.

As technology continues to evolve, government agencies are having to confront the in […]
Emily Jarvis wrote a new post, Aligning Legacy Systems and Innovation, on the site GovLoop 1 year, 4 months ago

This interview is an excerpt from GovLoop’s recent guide, Innovations that Mattered in 2016. Download the full guide here.

The federal government is trying to modernize its technology infrastructure to meet th […]
Emily Jarvis wrote a new post, Why Records Management Matters More Now Than Ever, on the site GovLoop 1 year, 4 months ago

This interview is an excerpt from GovLoop’s recent guide, Innovations that Mattered in 2016. Download the full guide here.

In an effort to improve records management transparency and efficiency, the White Ho […]
Emily Jarvis wrote a new post, Moving from Legacy IT to Modernized, Secure IT, on the site GovLoop 1 year, 5 months ago

This interview is an excerpt from GovLoop’s recent guide, Innovations that Mattered in 2016. Download the full guide here.

The federal government spent more than 75 percent of the total budgeted amount for IT f […]
Emily Jarvis wrote a new post, What Tops CIO Priority Lists?, on the site GovLoop 1 year, 7 months ago

Have you ever wondered what your Chief Information Officer is thinking about all day? What keeps them up at night? What makes them excited to go to work? What makes them want to pull their hair out?

At the […]
Emily Jarvis wrote a new post, How To Do Customer Service Right, on the site GovLoop 1 year, 7 months ago

Imagine this. Your agency is tasked with reaching out to individuals in 192 different languages, across many different channels, with varying education and technological expertise. It sounds like an almost […]
Emily Jarvis wrote a new post, 5 Things Govies Can Learn from Adventure Racing, on the site GovLoop 1 year, 7 months ago

If you’re anything like me, a good workout includes a short run and maybe lifting some weights… maybe. I have also on occasion been able to convince myself that it’s real exercise to move a cookie from the tab […]
- richard regan replied 1 year, 7 months ago
  
  I was quite offended as an American Indian/Alaska Native with your promotion of Theodore Roosevelt as a role model for leadership.
  
  Even white historians agree that Roosevelt held the following biases against Native people:
  
  • The US was generous to the Indians, paying them many times what their land was worth.
  • Indians broke just as many treaties as white men did.
  • That just and honorable nations like the US can break treaties whenever they choose.
  • That international law and morality don’t apply to indigenous people.
  • It was US policy to kill and conquer Indians and take their land.
  
  Here are just some of the nasty things Roosevelt had to say about my ancestors:
  
  • All the men of sane and wholesome thought must dismiss with impatient contempt the plea that these continents should be reserved for the use of scattered savage tribes, whose life was but a few degrees less meaningless, squalid, and ferocious than that of wild beasts with which they held joint ownership.
  • It is as idle to apply to savages the rules of international morality which obtain between stable and cultured communities.
  • The most righteous of all wars is a war with savages.
  • In their paint and their cheap, dirty finery, these savages did not look very important.
  • The ravages committed by these skulking parties of murderous braves were monotonous in their horror.
  • Indians are reckless, revengeful, fiendishly cruel, they rob and murder.
  • We need not waste our time in dealing with any sentimentalist who believes that, on account of any abstract principle, it would have been right to leave this continent to the domain, the hunting ground of squalid savages. It had to be taken by the white race.
  • The General Allotment Act is a mighty pulverizing engine to break up the tribal mass.
  • The truth is the Indians never had any real title to the soil.
  
  Thank you for reminding American Indian/Alaska Native readers as to why they are the most disengaged racial group in the federal government.
Emily Jarvis wrote a new post, Show Me the Money, on the site GovLoop 1 year, 7 months ago

This interview is an excerpt from GovLoops recent guide, The Workforce Behind State and Local Government. Download the full guide here.

Brian Maxwell, Director of Delaware’s Office of Management and B […]
Emily Jarvis wrote a new post, How to Make Your City SMART, on the site GovLoop 1 year, 8 months ago

State and local governments are currently living in an era of great change. Right now, many governments are finding the needs of their communities are exceeding their state and local government’s ability to d […]
Emily Jarvis wrote a new post, The Need for Innovation at DoD, on the site GovLoop 1 year, 9 months ago

This blog post is an excerpt from GovLoop’s recent guide DoD in Transition. Download the full guide here.

Threats to our nation no longer come only from air, land, and sea. New threats come from cyberspace, t […]
Emily Jarvis wrote a new post, Securing DoD with Integrated Machine Learning Technologies, on the site GovLoop 1 year, 10 months ago

This blog post is an excerpt from GovLoop’s recent guide DoD in Transition. Download the full guide here.

When you think of wars the Department of Defense faces, you may think of battles taking place in on l […]
Emily Jarvis wrote a new post, Data + Cyber + Gov = Success?, on the site GovLoop 1 year, 10 months ago

By now, everyone knows that cybersecurity is a top issue among government agencies. Every day there are new threats. Complicating matters, cyber criminals are getting smarter and are employing more sophisticated […]
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