Workforce
Why You Should Turn off Your Camera During Zoom Meetings
It's not just to hide clutter anymore—leaving your camera off during your next virtual meeting could help save the planet, too.
Management
It’s Time to Reinvent How America Delivers Foreign Aid
We are facing a moment of profound change; we must prepare for—and make the most of—new realities.
Management
Americans Have Unrealistic Expectations For a COVID-19 Vaccine
Two in five Americans say they don't want a COVID-19 vaccine, which is a problem. Finding out what Americans do want from a vaccine might help.
Oversight
What Is a Margin of Error? This Statistical Tool Can Help You Understand Vaccine Trials and Political Polling
Whether you are predicting the outcome of an election or studying how effective a new drug is, there will always be some uncertainty. A margin of error is how statisticians measure that uncertainty.
Workforce
5 Strategies for Cultivating Hope This Year
A year of social disconnections, deaths, job losses and political violence may lead some people to feel overwhelmed and sad. A psychologist suggests ways to find and sustain hope.
Management
6 Lessons From 2020 Federal Leaders Should Apply in the Months to Come
As the embers of the dumpster fire that was 2020 burn away, important lessons provide light for the way forward in 2021.
Management
Bringing Transparency to Administrative Law Judge Dockets
The deputy secretary of Labor explains how the department is using data to improve operations and allocate resources.
Management
Survey Shows COVID-19 Is Disproportionately Harming Women’s Mental Health
About 57 percent of women said their mental health had been negatively affected, compared to 44 percent of men.
Management
Why Agencies Should Invest in Managers (and Pay Them More)
The pandemic has created an opportunity for government to change the way work gets done. Managers will be the key to success.
Management
How Your Brain Decides to Put in Effort
If you want more coffee, but the pot is empty, is it worth getting up and brewing some more? Researchers have figured out how your brain decides.
Management
What Know-It-Alls Don’t Know, or the Illusion of Competence
The problem is that when people are incompetent, not only do they reach wrong conclusions and make unfortunate choices, they also are robbed of the ability to realize their mistakes.
Management
Lead Like Leo: Lessons From ‘The West Wing’
Those taking the reins in Washington could benefit from binge-watching the classic political drama.
Management
Your Brain’s Built-In Biases Insulate Your Beliefs from Contradictory Facts
Cognitive shortcuts help you efficiently move through a complicated world. But they come with an unwelcome side effect: Facts aren't necessarily enough to change your mind.
Management
How One IRS Executive Harnesses the Power of Meditation to Meet the Mission
“It is unique for a leader to meditate with their people … it is odd, but then again my team was accustomed to me coloring outside the lines,” says Anne Shepherd.
Management
5 Ways to Create a More Inclusive Work Environment
Maintaining a culture of relentless curiosity, where employees are invited to challenge assumptions, is good for organizations and healthy for people.
Management
Disasters Are Inevitable; Government’s Inadequate Response Is Not
New research analyzing the responses of hundreds of local leaders identified common obstacles and proven ways to overcome them.
Tech
Regulators Can Help Clear the Way for Entrepreneurial Energy Companies to Innovate
A study points to one way to speed up adoption of innovations in clean energy technology – more flexibility among state regulators.
Workforce
How Your Brain Tricks You Into Taking Risks During the Pandemic
Experts who study the way we think and make decisions say that it can be more than politics driving our decision-making this year. The unprecedented nature of the pandemic undermines how we process information and assess risk. Need proof? Look around.
Management
To Improve Equity, Improve Government Capacity
Agencies fail their moral and civic duty when they don't collect and disclose vital information that could direct resources where needed.
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