Weekly Round-up: February 03, 2012

Articles from across the Web that we found interesting, the week of January 30, 2012

Gadi Ben-Yehuda

Gov 2.Overseas!

Four Methods for Creating Thriving Employees Four Methods for Creating Thriving Employees

“If you give your employees the chance to learn and grow, they’ll thrive – and so will your organization,” says Gretchen Spreitzer and Christine Porath in an article they wrote in the January-February 2012 issue of Harvard Business Review.

Their article doesn’t focus on creating happy employees but rather “thriving” employees.  They say the focus should not be on creating contentment but engageme

Weekly Round-up: February 10, 2012

Articles from across the Web we found interesting, the week of February 06, 2012

Gadi Ben-Yehuda

Gov in (cyber)space! edition.

CAP Goals: A New Government Acronym (Part 1)

These goals stem from a new statutory requirement that the Office of Management and Budget identify and manage a small handful of cross-agency priority goals, covering both mission and mission-support functions.

OMB identified 14 CAP Goals.  Seven focus on mission-related functions.  Seven focus on mission-support.  All reflect existing initiatives but now have a higher profile.

CAP Goals: A New Government Acronym (Part 2)

Yesterday, I highlighted seven Cross-Agency Priority (CAP) Goals developed by OMB for the first time in response to the new GPRA Modernization Act of 2010. Here are highlights of seven additional CAP Goals responding to that new law’s requirement to address cross-cutting management challenges facing agencies.

CAP GOALS FOR MISSION-SUPPORT FUNCTIONS:

Weekly Round-up: February 10, 2012

  • From Cables to Wireless. Three senior State Department officials will sit down with Alex Howard to talk about the evolution of 21st Century Statecraft: what it means, how it is progressing, and what the future holds.  Alex writes about how you can submit a question, attend the panel, or watch it virtually.
  • In Our Mailboxes and Inboxes?

Four Methods for Creating Thriving Employees

Their article doesn’t focus on creating happy employees but rather “thriving” employees.  They say the focus should not be on creating contentment but engagement. After all, “contentment” connotes a degree of complacency, note the authors of the article.

Weekly Round-up: February 03, 2012

  • Across the Pond.

Does Citizen Participation Work?

A new report, “A Manager’s Guide to Evaluating Citizen Participation,” by Tina Nabatchi, an assistant professor at the Maxwell School at Syracuse University, is designed to help answer these questions.

Dr. Nabatchi says “Two types of evaluation are relevant for assessing citizen participation:”

Weekly Round-up: February 17, 2012 Weekly Round-up: February 17, 2012

Articles from across the Web that we found interesting, the week of February 13, 2012

Gadi Ben-Yehuda

This week was Social Media Week around the world, and here in DC we participated in Gov 2.0 style.  To start things off:

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