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Explore the latest leadership tips and career development guidance for federal employees looking to grow, lead, and advance. This category covers workplace leadership skills, communication strategies, career advancement advice, team management, professional development, and federal workforce leadership best practices. Find practical insights from our authors on becoming a more effective leader, improving performance, and navigating leadership challenges in today’s federal workplace.
If you regularly dash off sloppy, informal emails to colleagues in instances when serious messages are called for, your colleagues will notice and it can harm your reputation.
If you're writing a document that you will need to print and hand out (report, memo, newsletter, etc.), consider using a serif font to make the material easier…
Your colleagues are busy. In the first split-second after they open your email, they will scan the message to determine whether or not they have time to read…
The worst thing you can do to start a presentation is thank people. What they hear in those all-important first few seconds is not you being polite --…
The author says that holding elected representatives accountable for results from policies and systems requires that information be transparent, accurate, and timely, and that the availability of the…
A copywriter is simply a writer - a writer stuck with a silly and needlessly confusing title.
… you check your iPhone while talking face-to-face. Comedian Steven Wright jokes that once, right in the middle of a job interview, he took out a book and started…
When we write, we know exactly what we’re trying to communicate. But we often forget to step back and review our words from the point of view of a…
There is one benefit as a federal employee that can help you do your job more efficiently and possibly add something to your resume for later opportunities. Take…
The author offers some advice on ways to organize your research documents for easy reference when preparing a presentation, speech, or any work-related document.