Keeping up with the latest technology and allowing a contractor to explore technology options can promote creativity and innovation and bring cost savings to firm fixed priced contracts. More »

Learning Technologies , Government

Career Development , Change Management , Communication , E-Learning , Engagement , Innovation , Training and Development - General

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 need all the help they can get in attracting, hiring, developing, engaging, and ret... More »

Government , Workforce Development

Business Impact , Change Management , Engagement , Management Development , Human Performance Improvement

Government organizations are in a perpetual state of change. A key element to the introduction of change, as well as its eventual success or failure, is the human resource manager. Author Paul Light notes in his book The Four Pi... More »

Government , Human Capital

Beginner Level Content , Business Impact , Change Management , Economy , Engagement , Jobs

Are your agency leaders talking about collaboration now more than five or six years ago? Are you seeing considerably more collaboration in your agency today? When I pose these questions to managers, 80 to 90 pe... More »

Government , Learning & Development , Senior Leaders & Executives

Change Management , Engagement , Human Performance Improvement , Intermediate-level Content , Managing Organizational Knowledge

At my college, ballroom dancing was the largest club on campus. But ask as I might, I could never find a single student whod admit even a passing interest in the rumba. Lets cha-cha forward some 20 years: Government managers who... More »

Government , Human Capital , Senior Leaders & Executives

Change Management , Economy , Engagement , Global Workforce Development , Innovation , Jobs , Trends