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Buying American in IT Procurement
Saturday, September 15, 2012
A few months later, in October, it learned that it in fact made a serious misstep when the Government Accountability Office (GAO) issued a protest decision telling GSA to recompete the...
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Building Successful Leaders One Block at a Time
Saturday, September 15, 2012
This months issue examines myriad topics to help senior government executives and middle managers increase performance, and support employee learning and development. Along with the...
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What Non acquisition Managers Need to Know About Procurement
Saturday, September 15, 2012
Peter S. Cole and Michael G. Martin, How to Write a Statement of Work, Sixth Edition (Management Concepts, 2012) and Michael G. Martin, Federal Statements of Work: A Practical Guide (...
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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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Seeing the Forest for the Trees: Theory of Constraints Reduces Cost of Government
Saturday, September 15, 2012
Faced with improving service levels while cutting its annual operating budget, Utahs Department of Workforce Services leadership learned how TOC helps simplify department operations. When...
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Speaking Out in the Workplace
Saturday, September 15, 2012
Although public employees retain the right of free speech in the workplace, that speech must be outside the scope of their official duties and must regard some legitimate public concern....
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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 todays highly competitive business environment...
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Emerging HR Leaders Help the Public Manager
Saturday, September 15, 2012
As HR employees take on increased leadership responsibilities, they need to access resources beyond their own agencies and draw on a wider federal community to assist with HR challenges....
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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 Commands Surface Warfare Officers School (SWOS) aims to provide quality instruction for each of its...
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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. Despite shrinking tax revenues, state government agencies are still expected to provide critical services to their...
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Great Leaders Connect With the People They Lead
Saturday, September 15, 2012
What we do matters. What we do is hard work. Research consistently shows that 75 percent of employees in organizations are not engaged and not giving their best efforts at work.
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Don’t Be Left Behind: Improving Knowledge Transfer
Saturday, September 15, 2012
While many have embraced what they believe is KM, frustration continues because they did not thoroughly assess where the true needs and gaps were or analyze why those gaps exist. Many...
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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? If you answered yes to any of these questions, your agency most likely needs to build a more vibrant leadership...
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Use a Competency Library to Build a Talent Management System
Saturday, September 15, 2012
Developed under President George W. Bush, the Human Capital Assessment and Accountability Framework (HCAAF) on the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) website spells out five areas for...
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Online Dialogues Help Promote Learning and Engage Citizens
Saturday, September 15, 2012
With careful planning and oversight, online dialogues are demonstrating unprecedented opportunities for government officials and agencies to engage a large and diverse citizenry in...
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Executive Onboarding: How to Hit the Ground Running
Saturday, September 15, 2012
Executive onboarding is critical to an executives individual performance and to organizational performance. Onboarding programsthe acquiring, accommodating, assimilating, and accelerating...
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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 an Architecture for Leadership Development
Saturday, September 15, 2012
Strategies for promoting leadership development in federal agencies vary greatly. Due to fluctuations in funding and frequent leadership transitions (both career and political appointee),...
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At the Department of Labor We're Using our Strategic Plan to Manage. No, Really.
Saturday, September 15, 2012
At the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL), we have adopted a systematic approach to assess our progress in the implementation of our fiscal year (FY) 2011-2016 strategic plan to further...
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