In this workshop you will: Enhance your conflict management skills through interactive scenarios. Handle difficult conversations and conflict in real time and discuss real solutions. Obtain tips to better communicate with peers and supervisors. Gain confidence and overcome a defensive nature, with practical tips to put into practice. SCHEDULE: 5:00 – 6:00: Registration & Networking Happy Hour (with drinks and appetizers) 6:00 ...

Data is powerful. It can tell us more than we ever hoped to know about ourselves and the world around us. It’s also vital for solving today’s problems and predicting government’s future needs. However, the true power of data is only unveiled when it is coupled with analytics. A 2014 Forrester Survey found that most private sector companies only analyze 12 percent of the data they have. That means that 88 percent of a company...

Q: What do government healthcare and agriculture strategies have in common?A: The increasing use of data analytics. Data analytics has the power to transform governments – the way they operate, report, regulate, and plan for the future. In this free online training, GovLoop’s Christopher Dorobek will lead a panel discussion with government leaders and industry experts about how agencies can take their data analytics to the next lev...

Citizens are counting on agencies and IT departments to deliver new services faster — and to keep them running. But limited visibility into services and the dependencies that support them could stand between you and those goals. IT operations management can help. A single system of record is the most effective way to gain insight into services being delivered across the enterprise. This approach provides visibility system performance, al...

As the federal government increasingly relies on open cloud environments and next-generation application architectures, conventional and agile IT can often be at odds with one another. But what if you could operate more efficiently while becoming more agile? What if you could balance conventional and agile IT? With hybrid cloud architectures and bimodal capabilities that is a reality. Traditional and agile IT can coexist and provide a consiste...

The exponential growth of data, cyber and big data analytics initiatives, and consolidation mandates are pushing government’s legacy IT storage, compute, and networking infrastructures beyond their limits. Multi-tiered flash storage systems are enabling government agencies to hyper-consolidate all structured and unstructured workloads into a common, secure, and extensible storage operating environment. IT managers can finally satisfy the...

As the federal government increasingly invests in innovative technologies, open source platforms, and next-generation application architectures, some IT leaders worry that stability and security will be sacrificed. How do you reap the benefits of new technology without harming your agency or your processes? Can it be done? In a recent GovLoop survey, 59% of over 500 government respondents said integrating new solutions with legacy systems was...

In 1928, while running for office for the first time, former Speaker of the House Tip O’Neil (D-Mass.) proclaimed, “All politics is local.” Almost 90 years later the phrase still rings true — not just for politicians, but for civilian government employees as well. Non-federal government workers have a much different relationship with the citizens they serve. They’re on the ground floor. It’s personal. In thi...

Drones are fast changing the information landscape with the possibility of being the most highly disruptive technology since the cell phone. They are true robots, able to be tasked by their human masters for all types of applications that would otherwise be too difficult or expensive to accomplish. But whether they are used to find crab grass on golf courses, create roof damage reports for insurance companies, or find lost campers in the woods...

State and local governments face a lot of challenges: shrinking budgets, federal mandates, resource constraints, an aging workforce, and the constant threat of a cyberattack. In our 2nd Annual State and Local Innovators Virtual Summit we surveyed attendees to learn about specific challenges facing public servants and their communities. On October 21st, join us for our State and Local Tech Trends Virtual Training as we share those results and s...