From writing to advancing in your career, you will find tips from our authors on how to become a better leader in your job.
While you and I are not, strictly speaking, equipped with internal lie detectors, we can learn many of the common giveaways people display when they’re trying to get away with something. And those can serve as the next best thing.
Your agency is a multibillion-dollar organization we all know by name. Any employee who takes a phone call or greets a walk-in is acting as the agency’s sole representative for that person. Has your agency trained you to think of your role in those terms?
How do federal employees see themselves and why to they see themselves in this way? A retired human resources specialist discusses federal pay, job attitudes and why working for the government can be a very rewarding career.
Fast-tracking. Determining metrics. Capturing action items. Maybe it would be better if we all just spoke and wrote to each other like we were human beings.
Whether you’re preparing a major speech, or just planning to introduce a colleague in a meeting, you want to make sure all the words you plan to use are easy for you to read and say and for your audience to hear. Here are a few suggestions.
If drafting a formal letter on agency stationery is like writing calligraphy, and composing an email is the equivalent of writing with crayon, then instant messaging is like dipping your hands in spaghetti sauce and smearing your message all over the wall.
Here are two secrets most writers won’t admit. One: we often have questions about grammar, style and even spelling. Two: when we’re not sure how to write something, most writers take the same basic steps. These steps can help you too.
We’re all used to hearing wasteful “filler” words – “um, uh, I mean, you know, like” in casual conversation and even in rehearsed lectures and presentations. So if you can wipe them from your vocabulary, you’ll stand out as a great communicator and an intelligent professional.
Here are a few examples of how, with almost no effort on your part, you can make many situations easier for your colleagues–and earn a reputation as a diligent and thoughtful professional.
In politics, at work, and in our personal lives, we’ve become so bad at stating a genuine apology that you’d think the words “I’m sorry” were harder to say than “She sells seashells by the seashore.”
