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Choose Your Own Adventure: Certificate or Certification?

  • I’m looking forward to the National Grants Management Association Annual Training that gets started this Tuesday. It’s always great getting to meet so many of you in person.

    One line of questioning at the conference that I’m sure to get will be “certificate or certification.” So I thought I’d share my thoughts more broadly as next week focuses on the Certified Grants Management Specialist (CGMS) and we just finished 31 Days of Certified Grant Professionals (GPC).

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Three Initiatives to Help Improve the Acquisition Workforce

  • As a new year begins, agencies are also making their resolutions.  High on their list are ways to keep employees engaged, energized, and focused on meeting mission goals.  These are the top three initiatives we’ve seen when helping our clients identify ways to improve the acquisition workforce.

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3 Steps to Advance Your Contracting Career

  • Last week, my colleague Debbie Eshelman discussed the ability of individuals to embrace the chaos in Federal organizations to move their career forward. For many workers, as Debbie rightly noted, it feels like we are living in a more chaotic world than ever before. Dramatic changes in leadership and associated policies, operating norms, organizational structures, and the workforce are creating tremendous instabilities in organizations.

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