Posts Tagged: NextGen

Think Sustainability — Could alternate fuels save billions?

The American Clean Skies foundation is out with their new plan that aims to reduce the government’s consumption of oil – and the fiscal and environmental costs that come with it – by requiring federal agencies to apply to third-­‐party transportation providers the same kind of alternative fuel targets, efficiency standards and reporting practices thatRead… Read more »

Creating Innovation in Government: 3 Lessons from Todd Park

”Creating Innovation in Government” Todd Park, U.S. Chief Technology Officer Next generation of Government Summit Todd Park closed out the opening sessions of the Next Generation of Government Summit, reviewing his fascinating path to government. Todd Park mentioned that the most amazing experience in his career has been working for the federal government. Todd Park’sRead… Read more »

Use The Force, Top Ten Networking Tips

***Want more networking tips? Join us at the Networking 101 section next Tuesday, 9/10 at our GovLoop Virtual Innovators Summit – free rsvp**** This post comes from top tweets made during a recent session “Overview and In depth Conversations: Networking from the Light Side of the Force,” a Star Wars themed talk on networking byRead… Read more »

Supervisory Training: Being a Great Federal Supervisor & Beyond

The panel on supervisory training featured Winona H. Varnon, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Management within the Department of Education, as well as David M. Wulf, Deputy Director of the Infrastructure Security Compliance Division within the Office of Infrastructure Protection at the Department of Homeland Security. For developing leaders, one pressing concern is career advancement.Read… Read more »

The Best of NextGen In Photos

All our photos from NextGen12 can be seen here. Some of the best are below, taken by Govlooper Kanika Tolver: Steve Ressler emceed many of the sessions, rocking the “Field Notebook” used by conference participants to keep track of which of the awesome session they wanted to check out next. Matt Mullenweg, co-founder of wordpress:Read… Read more »

Next Generation of Government Lunch Keynote: Day 2

Today’s lunch session featured, Matt Mullenweg, Founder, WordPress & Successful Young Entrepreneur and Jon Carson, Director of the Office of Public Engagement, White House. Matt kicked of the session by stating, “Do not listen when people say this cannot be done,” using his experience at WordPress. Matt mentioned how powerful the internet age has become,Read… Read more »

NextGen: How to Make Effective Decisions- Lessons Learned from an Undercover Case

The Mongols are an extremely violent motorcycle gang in Los Angeles organized over 30 years ago. John Torres, Deputy Assistant Director, Headquarters, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, discussed leadership lessons learned from two undercover cases involving the gang. In 2001, Billy Queen, an AFT agent infiltrated the Mongols successfully for the first timeRead… Read more »

Write Better, Think Critically

For the next generation of government leaders, Nick Charney has several strategies to give your writing edge. And why should you care? According to him, “The ability to affectively communicate information is what puts you above everyone else.” With left-brain, creative skills of increasing importance in our economy, what differentiates you is the ability toRead… Read more »

Leading with Risk

Making decisions is never easy — and some might argue that it is even more challenging today because things change SO quickly. How do you make the best decisions? That is one of the issues we’ll be talking about later this month at the Next Generation of Government Training Summit taking place July 26-27 hereRead… Read more »