Emerald One is thrilled to receive four prestigious awards at the 2023 MarCom International Creative Awards, including two Platinum awards for a Customer Success Playbook and Accessibility Training Slide Deck, as well as honorable mentions for custom business cards and the ‘Brilliant in 20’ podcast series.
Read MoreWe are thrilled to announce that Emerald One has been recognition as one of OrangeSlices’ prestigious 2024 Elev8 GovCon honorees.
Read MoreCulture awareness is one of our Elements of Brilliance. Read through how we view culture awareness and the ways it could add to your leadership.
Read MoreLeadership is a commitment to lifelong learning and development. Learn more about how to build your leadership skills with these recommendations from our Chief Experience Officer, Kai Miller.
Read MoreApril is Stress Awareness Month, a time when we should take a moment to just understand how stress impacts our lives both personally and professionally. However, this is a mindfulness activity everyone should do every day. Leaders especially need to be aware of stress and how it affects their stamina, their insights, the people around them, and the organizations they lead. Our own LaVerne Council shares her strategies for eliminating stress in a professional environment.
Read MoreThe failure of IT costs the U.S. economy between $50 and $150 billion annually. Yes, you read that correctly. As a C-suite leader or top-level executive, it is your job to guide your organization in a direction that assures it does not become a part of this trend. To do so, you must ensure that your IT portfolio is not only performing as expected but gaining the maximum return on investment. Ideally, you’ll want to ascertain this before you’ve expended too much of your valuable time, capital, and resources on projects that are doomed to fail.
Read MoreThe business world today shows us that corporations are in a perpetual state of change. This is due to a number of factors including continued growth and globalization, increased demand for services, and, perhaps most prevalent now, the inescapable need for digital transformation. But no matter what the reason, time and again, we see change initiatives fail.
Read MoreMcLean, VA—Emerald One, LLC, a 100% women-owned small business, announced today that the General Services Administration (GSA) awarded the company a five-year contract on GSA Multiple-Award Schedule (MAS) for Information Technology, formerly known as GSA IT Schedule 70.
Read MoreToday’s informed leader knows that their people are their most valuable resource, not just cogs in a machine. To harness this resource’s power, management, executives, and leadership need to cultivate high degrees of trust, emotional intelligence, and empathy.
Read MoreThe core values of any organization must underlie every decision that its leader makes. They must inform how the leader interacts with their team, employees, and customers. They must even dictate why they hire someone, how they measure performance, and the criteria for offering a promotion or bonus.
Read MorePublic interest demands that federal agencies provide the most up to date and efficient solutions for the issues that we face. But technological complexity and longstanding cultural problems make it impossible to keep up with the rapidly evolving digital landscape. To bridge this gap...
Read MoreCorporate identity cannot be forced. It is not a mission statement scrawled haphazardly to fill space on a website. It is not branding. Instead, identity is meticulously planned. It reflects the collective values of a team—not just values as watchwords, but embodied values that are put into practice every day. Corporate identity and strategic messaging must be carefully crafted and continuously nurtured by genuinely invested leadership.
Read MoreDistributed teams are the way of the future. Informed C-Suite leaders might be asking themselves, “How can we sustain the benefits without exhausting them?” and “How can I effectively lead my team in this new environment?” In the past, the onus may have been put on the remote workers themselves to stay motivated, productive, and engaged, while in today’s world, it is up to the organization to begin to reinforce their leadership, culture, and trust capabilities to realize the maximum value of distributed work.
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