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Procurement Office Development The Help You Need: Internships & Your Office
Believe it or not, summer is the time where many students are preparing for graduation. How can a student who is on summer vacation prepare for graduation?
Procurement Office Development Mentorship – Benefits for All
How do you learn best? In the classroom, a digital environment, independent study, or one on one interaction? The answer may vary depending on many factors, but individual instruction is a very effective way to learn. Read more “Mentorship – Benefits for All”
Professional Development Managing Remote Workers
Managing a remote team of workers for the first time can be challenging in the best of circumstances, much less now in what feels like a disorienting wave of bad news and emergency actions. It can feel uncomfortable to not be able to swing by someone’s office to talk to them face to face or have meetings where you can see expressions and body language.
Here are some tips and resources to help you manage your team remotely:
Professional Development Ease Working From Home
The COVID-19 pandemic has left many organizations to figure out how to best adjust their workflows and training programs to meet the changing demands of our current work environment. This means many organizations (NASPO and Procurement U included) are moving to remote work options. While it is important for every organization to do something, the reality is that it can be much more challenging for some organizations to quickly ramp up a work-from-home situation, and training programs are left evaluating their ability to deliver effective training in a virtual environment.
Below are some tips and resources that could help you manage virtual training or remote work options. Read more “Ease Working From Home”
NASPO Events & Education On the Road Again: NASPO’s Academic Affairs
We are kicking off this year by hitting the road to visit some of our academic partners and their students Keep reading if your office is interested in:
Recruiting and retaining emerging talent
Staying up to date on resources offered by academic partners
Continuing education opportunities
Read more “On the Road Again: NASPO’s Academic Affairs”
NASPO Events & Education NASPO Members Eligible for Mini-Scholarships
Are you in search of an opportunity to enhance your procurement knowledge? Do you enjoy learning from your peers in other states? Are you looking to challenge yourself while adding valuable insight to your profession?
Professional Development Succession Planning: Don’t Just Plan for Your Future
As a greater proportion of the workforce reaches retirement age each year, the importance of succession planning has never been more apparent. Talent management and succession planning ranked #6 on NASPO’s Top Ten priorities for 2020 . Never fear! Pulse is here to help with some tips and tricks for a successful planning process. Read more “Succession Planning: Don’t Just Plan for Your Future”
NASPO Events & Education Academic Partner Perspective: Kelly Lynch
Written by Olivia Hook Frey
NASPO’s academic partnerships are paramount to our higher education initiatives. Without these impressive partners at colleges and universities across the country, none of this programming would be possible. When we started this endeavor in 2016, we set out to build relationships with top-tier Supply Chain Management Programs and faculty, because we believe Supply Chain Management is the degree program that most closely aligns with the work our members do in state procurement. Since then, we have had some majors wins with each partner. Over the past three years, our goals with each academic partner have morphed. We have discovered the different specialties of each partner.
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