A Quick Tour of PlainLanguage.Gov
In this post, I hope to acclimate you to a few of the resources that are housed at PlainLanguage.gov so that you will learn to integrate the guidance into your own work as well as to navigate the site on your own.
In the Image of Me
We build workplaces in the image of ourselves. We tend to hire people for cultural fit. Most of time that translates into surrounding ourselves with folks who look like us, think like us, and act like us.
Talking With Your Customers, Not At Them
Collaboration is increasingly a model for customer service, product development, and service enhancement.
4 Things Not to Say in Your Job Interview
It’s the question we all dread in a job interview: “What’s your biggest weakness?” Though you know it is coming, you may not be as prepared as you think.
Spivey’s Hierarchy of Good Publishable Content
Web content exists in a real world, not a perfect one. And sometimes good work processes get overruled, lawyers prevail, and deadlines drive actions. In the interests of saving someone else’s sanity, here are my rules of good publishable content
7 Tools for Boosting Voter Engagement
Here are a variety of tools your agency or organization can use to increase voter engagement.
5 Things to Ask Your Boss During Your Weekly One-On-One Meetings
Come prepared and ready to make the most of each one-on-one meeting. Instead of asking the same old stuff each meeting, focus on driving action and improvement through these questions.
How to Stand Out in Your Next Federal Job Interview
What experts recommend to help you stand out in your next federal job interview.
Federal Recruitment White Paper: Problems and Solutions
The problems in federal hiring are not just with the endemic habit of skipping and joining recruitment workflows or its enablement by agencies’ automated hiring technologies.
Disengaged Employee Seeks Manager for Engagement
The six most important drivers of engagement in gov.