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 »
Getting Comfortable With Peer-to-Peer Management
Managing your peers presents some unique challenges. It can be awkward to delegate tasks and deadlines when you lack the authority to demand results, and can strain relationships with colleagues who are used to seeing you in an equal or subordinate role. In this resource, you’ll find insights gathered from a recent online training featuringRead… Read more »
Tips for Critical Conversations
Critical conversations are an opportunity to grow, to improve our people skills and to get closer to your mission. During a recent in-person event, “The Art of Critical Conversations,” two speakers shared tips about navigating situations that called for a tricky conversation. This quick resource offers pointers for productive talks in a variety of scenariosRead… Read more »
How to Handle Workplace (and Any) Conflicts
Whether it stems from gossip, misunderstandings or an unwillingness to compromise, conflict can take a toll not just on the workplace environment, but also on employee well-being. This quick resource includes tips and takeaways on conflict resolution strategies during a recent NextGen professional development session. You’ll hear from: TJ Espey, Portfolio Manager at the U.S.Read… Read more »
How to Fine Tune Your Resume and Interview Skills
The first steps to securing a government job are applying and interviewing for it — and that can be tricky. This quick tip sheet offers expert advice from Susan Gygax, Talent Acquisition Consultant at Spectacle Talent Partners, on how to create your resume and successfully interview for a position. You’ll learn: What your resume isRead… 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:
Addressing Unconscious Bias in the Workplace
This worksheet provides expert tips on identifying and addressing unconscious biases.
Prioritize Psychological Safety
This worksheet will help you learn how to foster a psychologically safe environment from both a personal and organizational perspective.
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.
Professional Development Best Practices for Government
An easy-to-skim resource that you and your colleagues can reference regularly and start using today.
Finding Productivity in Chaos Worksheet
Check out these expert tips to prepare for and manage change.
4 Tips To Take the Power of Unconscious Bias Away
Learn what unconscious bias means, how it can obstruct agency performance and how to overcome it by reframing biased thinking.
Get Comfortable With Data Worksheet
Check out this worksheet featuring expert tips for using data in your career.
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.
Change Management Worksheet
Check out these expert tips for managing change in your life.
Data Analytics Worksheet
Any public servant looking to make their presentations snappier or their proposal stronger can call on the power of simple analytics. This worksheet will help you get started with data analytics.
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 »
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 »
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!
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.