How Can Public Sector Employers Improve Morale in the Face of Mass Layoffs?

Your actions can build a resilient, confident group. When the layoffs stop and the dust settles, you’ll have a team that has each other’s backs and is enthusiastic about getting to work.

How Can Public Agencies Support DEI Efforts Amidst Budget Cuts?

Diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) describes initiatives that promote the representation and involvement of various groups of individuals.

What’s With All This Disengagement?

If an effective manager is the key to employee engagement, then learning to interact and deal positively with people is critical.

Leadership and Career Development

Change is all around us, occurring literally every second of our lives. Most of the time, it is so small or hidden that you don’t notice it.

How To Navigate Diverse Value Systems in the Workplace

Each of us brings a unique blend of values shaped by personal history, cultural background, and life experiences.

From Public Service to Private Sector: How Federal Employees Can Successfully Pivot Their Careers

The reality is that federal workers do not struggle because they lack qualifications—they struggle because they haven’t been educated about how to express their worth in the language of the private sector.

Why You Need to Know How To Unlock Your Value Proposition

Why You Need to Know How To Unlock Your Value Proposition

One of the most important facets of coaching women is ensuring that they understand their true value. It can be very hard for women to acknowledge how to sell their skills, abilities, and achievements because we have been conditioned to not to be aggressive or risk being viewed as unlikeable. However, identifying your own skills and special qualities isn’t always the easiest task either.

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The End of Days: Leaving Your Job

The End of Days: Leaving Your Job

“And did you get what you wanted out of life, even so?”

This wonderful quote used in the ‘2016 Commencement Speech’ at Harvard Graduate School of Education, is poetic, poignant and prophetic. Derived from a poem by Raymond Carver, it captures our imagination, in particular as it is one the major questions in life that we all must answer, according to Professor James Ryan, Dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

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3 Ways to Avoid Burnout

3 Ways to Avoid Burnout

Employees often blame their bosses or work culture when they experience burnout, and for good reason. It’s the leader’s job to take care of the team. Yet, as an individual, you are responsible for your own mental and physical health. How can you take control and be proactive?

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My Two Hands and Ten Fingers

My Two Hands and Ten Fingers

These days, I regularly find myself carrying out a review of each day. In a busy life, it appears to be a little mechanism that has evolved to help me keep some kind of check on progress, or otherwise. A daily instrument to help me impose some order on an often hectic schedule.

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Information Governance Insights: Records Compliance Can Cost You

Information Governance Insights: Records Compliance Can Cost You

There’s a lot of discussion around realizing value from an organization’s data. Business Intelligence is all the rage nowadays and everyone is busy building data warehouses and that is a good thing. However, if you are in a regulated industry, it is extremely important to be vigilant on your compliance program so that you do not inadvertently cost your organization serious money in terms of fines and sanctions.

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Working Well in Teams

Working Well in Teams

Collaboration is a buzz word in today’s workplace. High schools, colleges, and universities are pushing curriculum geared towards group projects. After consulting local businesses who say students are not well prepared for team work, universities are encouraging their instructors to incorporate group projects as an integral part of program curriculum.

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