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Posts Tagged: transparency
The Nitty Gritty of Government Compliance and Transparency
The Government today faces a slew of challenges, from trust issues to compliance and risk management. But what can help is a well-executed compliance system with public-sector records requests
How to Explain Public Relations to Your Coworkers
Like all the other things we have to maintain in life – our cars, our diets, our checkbooks – maintaining an image takes time and talent. It doesn’t just happen and it doesn’t involve only one strategy.
The Secret to Communicating With Employees: Start a Dialogue
Don’t think of internal communication as “I need to tell you what’s going on” or “You need to provide feedback via this survey.” If you really want to communicate with employees, it must be a dialogue.
GPA is Just a Number
Not happy with your agency’s FITARA scorecard? Check out what agencies are doing right with FITARA implementation and learn a few ways they can improve.
The 4 Envelopes: Transparent Project Management Part 2
Public confidence in federal technology is at record lows in the wake of serial IT disasters like healthcare.gov and OPM’s failure to protect tens of millions of security records. We need to fix this.
Can You See Through the Money?
In a world filled with technology, we assume transparency is a given. We desire the ‘need to know’ and we believe it is our right to know. To top it all of, we hold our government to a higher standard. The concept of checks and balances fosters a sense of mutual accountability from citizens andRead… Read more »
3 Things Your Millennial Leader Doesn’t Want to Hear
Millennials have been active in the workforce some time now, and they are moving into management and leadership roles in government and in private sector. With the advent of the millennial leader, expect changes. A new generation almost always means new rules.
Cyber-What do the People Want from Govt?
The data collected, saved, utilized, and disseminated from the public is an essential part of government’s backbone. But at the same time, the government must be good stewards of the data. It’s their job to secure constituents’ data. But with great data collection comes even greater responsibility. In the 21st century, American citizens are demandingRead… Read more »
Don’t Hide the Issue
In the children’s movie, Robots, Rodney Copperbottom grows up hearing his role model, Mr. Bigweld, teach the world, “see a need, fill a need.” I won’t ruin the movie for you, but let’s just say that he ends up living this mantra out to its fullest. What I love about the movie (aside from itsRead… Read more »