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Training to the Rescue: First Responders Power Up Skills While Cutting Costs
Saturday, September 15, 2012
In the movie Apollo 13, one of the scientists supporting the astronauts return to Earth interrupts NASA Flight Director Gene Kranz, insisting Power is everything! Without it, they dont talk...
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Changing Behavior and Improving Work Performance
Saturday, September 15, 2012
With more than 29 years of experience as an acquisition professional in both the federal and private sector, Lisa Doyle, former chancellor of Veterans Affairs Acquisition Academy, was...
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Building Successful Leaders One Block at a Time
Saturday, September 15, 2012
"What we do matters. What we do is hard work."—Admiral Vern Clark As the new editor of The Public Manager, I am excited about the opportunity to further the mission of this...
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Buying American in IT Procurement
Saturday, September 15, 2012
Service or product? As cloud services gain in popularity, technology and procurement managers need to navigate the murky waters of regulations governing the purchase of those services. In...
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Creating a Shared Leadership Culture Through Multilevel Development
Saturday, September 15, 2012
Do the leaders of your agency struggle to stay on the same sheet of music? Do some need developmental feedback, while others grow and change more quickly than the organization? Are members...
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Use a Competency Library to Build a Talent Management System
Saturday, September 15, 2012
A competency library is a critical foundation for building an integrated talent management system. In the Talent Management Handbook (2010 second edition), authors Kim Ruyle and Evelyn Orr...
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Seeing the Forest for the Trees: Theory of Constraints Reduces Cost of Government
Saturday, September 15, 2012
When the economic downturn hit the nation several years ago, Utah’s Department of Workforce Services (DWS) was hit with a double whammy—workloads that tripled and budgets that were cut. DWS...
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At the Department of Labor We're Using our Strategic Plan to Manage. No, Really.
Saturday, September 15, 2012
How can a strategic plan become a springboard to directly manage the operations of a federal department or agency in a way that increases the likelihood of achieving the organization’s...
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Online Dialogues Help Promote Learning and Engage Citizens
Saturday, September 15, 2012
Imagine having the ability to obtain citizens’ perspectives on government programs, policies, procedures, or regulations quickly, inexpensively, and with few barriers to participation from...
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What Non acquisition Managers Need to Know About Procurement
Saturday, September 15, 2012
The role of the nonacquisition manager is critical to proper stewardship and oversight and to achievement of strategic outcomes. I learned this during the scrub-down of many misbegotten...
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Great Leaders Connect With the People They Lead
Saturday, September 15, 2012
Every organization’s success requires employees who are engaged. Research consistently shows that 75 percent of employees in organizations are not engaged and not giving their best efforts...
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Emerging HR Leaders Help the Public Manager
Saturday, September 15, 2012
Managing human capital is a high-risk area in the federal government, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) reported more than a decade ago. In part, GAO found that federal managers...
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Innovations in Learning
Saturday, September 15, 2012
When you examine workplace learning, there is no clear-cut definition on what that means or how to implement it, but one thing is for sure: in today's highly competitive business...
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Executive Onboarding: How to Hit the Ground Running
Saturday, September 15, 2012
Executive onboarding is critical to an executive’s individual performance and to organizational performance. Where large-scale change is not feasible, establish a process within an...
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Don’t Be Left Behind: Improving Knowledge Transfer
Saturday, September 15, 2012
Almost everyone from government organizations to small and large corporations struggles to adapt more quickly. We push to manage increased information, and to capture and apply the...
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Surface Warfare Officers School Emphasizes Performance Assessment
Saturday, September 15, 2012
A 2012 ASTD Excellence in Practice Award winner, the Naval Education and Training Command’s Surface Warfare Officers School (SWOS) aims to provide quality instruction for each of its...
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Speaking Out in the Workplace
Saturday, September 15, 2012
Public sector employees do not check the constitutional right of free speech at the door when they enter public service. According to the Supreme Court, a public employer cannot infringe on...
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HR Outsourcing Can Boost Savings and Service
Saturday, September 15, 2012
Outsourcing is gaining traction among public HR and IT decision makers. It offers benefits in six important areas: economic, strategic, operational, technology, human resource, and risk...
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Building an Architecture for Leadership Development
Saturday, September 15, 2012
Strategies for promoting leadership development in federal agencies vary greatly. There are “just-in-time” programs focusing on specific populations, such as new supervisors or senior...
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