Weekly Productivity Planner
Read our top five tips to becoming more productive. Then, use them to create your weekly productivity planner and get your job done!
How to Manage Yourself in Difficult Times
There are many ways to experience stress, including a sea of physical and emotional symptoms when anxiety is high. It’s natural to focus on how we, as individuals, feel — but our emotions can also affect the people around us. We spoke with Carolyn Mooney, a certified coaching professional and owner of Enough LLC, whoRead… Read more »
How to Overcome Imposter Syndrome, for Real
Imposter syndrome affects approximately 82% of the population and has wide-ranging consequences, from low morale and productivity to a less effective workforce. However, there are ways to ease your self-doubt. This quick resource offers strategies for quieting your inner critic and regaining confidence. You’ll learn: The 5 P’s of imposter syndrome. Practical techniques for creatingRead… Read more »
NextGen Presents: Your 2024 Success Skills Workbook
According to a LinkedIn survey, recruiters say that in 89% of cases where new hires don’t work out, the reason is because people lack soft skills, such as interpersonal communication and time management. We refer to them as “success” skills, and they are crucial for individual and team achievement. This workbook offers worksheets and linksRead… Read more »
Stop, Drop and Roll: Burnout Prevention and Response Kit
When things get hectic, all the little firestorms in your work life can really smart. Let’s figure out how to outsmart them, before you get burned out. We know you didn’t start the fire, but we have resources to teach you to be your own first responder — videos, checklists and advice from seasoned experts.Read… Read more »
Tips and Takeaways: How to Stand Out at Work
Establishing visibility and trust in the workplace helps you strengthen relationships with your colleagues, creates your professional brand and crafts a clear statement about your career goals. Download this quick resource for insight from government and industry experts on how to stand out and create trust in your agency. Download below:
How to Not Overthink Your Career Plan: A Checklist
Where do you want your career to go? Making your goals a reality requires a bit of planning. During a recent NextGen online training session, Merrick Krause, Deputy Chief Human Capital Officer and Director of Human Capital Strategy at the General Services Administration’s Office of Human Resources Management, suggested making a checklist to ensure you’reRead… Read more »
Worksheet: Building Your Personal Brand Statement
Get your free copy of this new worksheet to help you craft the perfect personal brand statement.
Succeeding With a Bad Boss
This worksheet offers expert tips on understanding and working with difficult bosses.
Networking Group: New Supervisors in Government
In this online community, we will share resources, create an environment for honest and productive conversations, and host virtual monthly networking sessions to connect.
2021 Goal Setting Worksheet
We created this free, printable worksheet to help you walk through the goal-setting process. It includes key considerations and an outline to help you map where you’re going to take your career in 2021!
Bringing Change Under Your Control
Check out these expert tips on responding to and managing change.
How to Fail Forward: A Worksheet
In this worksheet, you’ll learn why failure is a necessary step to innovate and improve, and how to embrace it.
Managing Virtual Teams and Boosting Workforce Culture and Retention
Explore tactical steps, activities and practical resources you can take back to your team.
Get Comfortable With Data Worksheet
Check out this worksheet featuring expert tips for using data in your career.
Secure, Connected Employees, Resilient Agencies
Reimagine your workspace.
Empathetic Leadership Worksheet
This worksheet will help you ensure you’re practicing empathy regularly. It features tips on empathetic leadership from expert Allison Wise.
NextGen Explains: Imposter Syndrome
Check out this short video to learn more about imposter syndrome and how you can beat it.
NextGen Explains: What Are ECQs and Why Do They Matter?
Take a few moments to learn more about OPM’s executive core qualifications (ECQs) and how you can put them to work in order to get to the next level in your public service career.
Continuity After COVID-19: Rising to the Challenge of Remote Work
To better understand this unique situation, we surveyed over 800 government employees in March 2020. Get your free copy of this new report to learn what measures agencies have in place, what cultural challenges the workforce anticipated and what tools employees have to work in this new normal.
NextGen Explains: 5 Tips for Receiving Feedback
Being open to feedback is critically important for growing in our careers. To help you receive feedback, we created a short video.
Public Speaking Worksheet
Learn how to find your professional voice.
Worksheet: Filling the Skills Gap to Develop a Cyber Workforce
GovLoop created this resource to help your agency understand which skills gaps it must address to fill its shortage of cybersecurity professionals.
Tips for Navigating Government Telework
Check out our latest guide to learn how to: Get you manager onboard with teleworking. Choose and implement the tech you need to stay productive. Foster a culture that embraces telework.
Conflict Management Styles Cheat Sheet
By learning how you act in conflict, your conflict management styles, and as well as how your peers react, you can better navigate disagreements.
Your Government Resume How-To
Use this cheat sheet – part of GovLoops Rock Your Resume bundle of resources – to make sure your resume is formatted, full of buzz words and hitting the right tone to land you that job in the public sector.
Workforce Self-Assessment Questions for Agency Leadership
This assessment is part of a broader guide for developing strategic workforce plans. It can serve as a practical tool for workforce planning consultants who collaborate with senior leaders, HR, finance, planning and performance staff. The questions in this assessment are meant to help you focus on the effectiveness of performance, hiring and development effortsRead… Read more »
Your Guide to Veterans Resources
To help those who have served our country, GovLoop has put together this small guide to resources relating to workforce transitions, health care, and benefits for veterans. We hope you find this useful, and we thank you for your service.
10 Tips for Finding a Job on USAJobs
If you are a federal employee, you have had to navigate the USAJobs platform at one point or another. And chances are if you are not a federal employee but are interested in becoming one, you have poked around the site as well. Sometimes this experience can be intuitive, but other times it can feelRead… Read more »
Your Guide to Federal Workforce Reforms
The Trump administration released its overarching vision in April for reducing the size and cost of the federal government. In an Office of Management and Budget memo, the administration tasked agencies with making plans to reduce the civilian workforce, maximize employee performance and focus on opportunities to eliminate activities, restructure or merge them. These reformRead… Read more »
Your Guide to Icebreakers for Meetings
We’ve broken down the situations where you would likely use icebreakers into three categories: team meetings, small group trainings, and large group summits. Follow these tips to successfully break the ice at your next meeting, training or summit.
Empathy in the Workplace Checklist
Reference this checklist to make sure you’re exercising emotional intelligence and empathy in the workplace.
Your First 100 Days in Office
Make your first 100 days under the new administration successful and set your pace to achieve your long-term government career goals
Government Certifications You Didn’t Know You Needed
As you get further and further into your career, it is easy to fall behind on continuing education. Fortunately, there are certification programs that help people across government continue their education and advance their career. Whether you’re in HR, project management, IT or public affairs, there is a certification program waiting for you!
Tips for Navigating Your Federal Career
Download GovLoop’s guide, all about navigating the tricky landscape of a federal career, now!
How to Survive and Thrive in the Presidential Transition
Download GovLoop’s newest guide, all about how to handle the upcoming Presidential Transition, now!
Do You Need a Mentor, Coach or Champion?
Take this quiz to determine whether a mentor, coach or champion is the right person to help your career move forward.
Obi-Wan, Yoda, or Darth Vader: What’s Your Leadership Style?
Even though they take place in a galaxy far, far away, there’s a lot to learn about leadership from the Star Wars movies. And really, who hasn’t wondered which character you leadership style in most closely in line with? Go ahead and start the quiz now! May the Force be with You.
Career Booster Toolkit
Looking to land a government job? Or maybe you have a gov gig, but want to take your career to the next level. If this is you, you need to download this government career booster toolkit.