Federal Disability Workforce Consortium to Present “The News Hour” Webinar — May 22, 2:00-3:00 PM EST “The News Hour” is a free webinar series from the Federal Disability Workforce Consortium (FDWC) that shares information related to the employment of individuals with disabilities in the federal government. The May 22nd webinar will focus on EEOC ManagementRead… Read more »
It’s already happening. You see it when citizens report potholes, broken signs, graffiti or nuisances using 311 apps. You see it with hackathons, the open data movement, and with organizations like Code for America and Tumml brokering innovation by bringing together developers and government agencies. There’s a palpable energy driven by technological innovations, heightened expectations,Read… Read more »
As a follow up to my post about Best Focus Groups Guides and Resources, here are some ideas about using icebreakers to get the session started on the right foot and not end up “on the rocks”: ABOUT USING ICEBREAKERS The Art of Icebreakers Excellent document about the use of icebreakers. FAST ICEBREAKER QUESTIONS TheRead… Read more »
Here is my list of the best focus group guides and resources. Knowing how to pitch, plan, facilitate, record and report the results of focus groups can be daunting. Whether you are using a contractor and want to ensure the quality of the research or you have to run a focus group yourself because thereRead… Read more »
What lessons in employee engagement and business can we learn from Andrew Carnegie? For starters… Pissed off people = poor profits! That’s a lesson that Andrew Carnegie learned the hard way. Carnegie was a titan of industry and a true entrepreneur. I’ll spare the detailed history lesson, though suffice to say he came from nothing,Read… Read more »
Happy People = Higher Profits! That’s a lesson that Henry Ford learned early in his entrepreneurial business and leadership career. Ford’s success began during a significant time of change in America. When the Ford Motor Company was officially started in 1903, the government was cracking down on industry. The government was making a statement againstRead… Read more »
Social Media is being utilized to improve citizen engagement in a number of agencies. Our guide, The Social Media Experiment in Government: Elements of Excellence Highlights the new and exciting ways that agencies are accomplishing this. If you haven’t done so already, I would recommend taking a look at this guide and see the experimentationRead… Read more »
Love the 80/20 rule. Last thing you wish to do is build it and hope they will come. Getting folks engaged is more than just building the mechanism, its about building the audience. https://www.govloop.com/profiles/blogs/dorobekinsider-live-redefining-citizen-engagement?elq=1c535b233310475a893d49c49a76a425&elqCampaignId=2956
A while back, a colleague was on a young managers panel at a conference. She was asked, in the Q&A, what one message she would impart to future managers: The response, in a split second, was “What you’re giving now? You can never give less.” She was right. Your days spent treading water now areRead… Read more »
This topic has come up time and time again here on GovLoop and I felt it was time to revisit the greater discussion involving use of social/new/2.0/3.0/etc technology for the purposes of emergency response, recovery, mitigation, citizen engagement, and so forth through the optic of the PIO. To this end, an entire world-wide group ofRead… Read more »