As a team leader, it will be your job (along with a facilitator) to guard against allowing the team to get stuck in this zone of familiarity. But how do you challenge your team while supporting and encouraging them to pursue thinking more deeply about the problem?
How do you even begin to plan an event that is relevant to government (three levels), academic and not-for-profit stakeholders across 13 provinces/territories in a massive country?
After trying different approaches, I discovered a framework and techniques that improved my meeting outcomes and fostering of team collaboration.
It is my concern, over a period of years, there have been a series of events which are affecting the attitudes of those workers we depend on to keep our country operating.
Intentionally cultivating a collaborative environment can boost your organization’s productivity and effectiveness.
We all can cultivate a culture of inclusion and make significant contributions in an organization. The ability to celebrate our diversity while being part of one mission is absolutely complementary.
This past year, for the first time, departments were instructed to isolate their technology-specific investment requests and submit them for review by DoIT and their budget analyst ahead of the capital budget proposal deadline.
The 4th annual Smart Cities Week Conference and Exhibition returns to Washington, D.C. on October 2-4 and will focus on collaboration as the cornerstone of a smart city.
The following are community organizing tools that carry over into the government technology space and have helped me be a more effective innovator.
The same traits that make brunch great can be used to foster collaboration and innovation in ways that re-imagine more traditional federal work.