The Wolves Inside Me
Our language keeps us negative, particularly when it comes to words that carry emotion. Of the most common words people use to convey emotion in the English language, 70% of them are negative.
Posts By richard regan
White is Right When it Comes to Engagement
I thought that surely the best role models of engagement in the most powerful government in the world would be exemplary representatives for ensuring their workforces look like the taxpayers they serve.
Inclusively Exclusive
We are human beings, not robots. We all want a role in the workplace but we do not want that role to completely define who we are as individuals.
Want Inclusion? Look to Women
According to the Gender Intelligence Group, women leaders apply the following drivers of inclusion more often in the workplace than men.
Competency Trap
We all fall victim in our careers to the competency trap–the tendency to gravitate to those things that we do naturally. Since our workplaces reward us for our proficiencies and expertise, we get conditioned to do the same behavior over and over again because it feeds our need for recognition and appreciation.
The American Indian/Alaska Native Disadvantage
The Office of Personnel Management released my agency’s engagement scores for 2015 last week and for the second year in a row, Asian Americans are the highest engaged group of employees by race at 72%. For the 7th year in a row, my group, American Indians/Alaska Natives had the lowest engagement levels by race ofRead… Read more »
To Do Thinking vs. To Date Thinking
That is the reality of commitment and satisfaction in the federal government. We improved but we still come up short.
Real Effectiveness vs. Apparent Effectiveness
If you work in the federal government, you struggle with this notion of real effectiveness verses apparent effectiveness.
Disengaged but I Like My Job
Commitment and satisfaction levels of federal employees are at their lowest levels since the feds started measuring these drivers of engagement in 2003. Yet, most federal workers claim they inherently like the work they do.
Disengagement Then, Disengagement Now and Disengagement Forever
If you ever talk to American Indian/Alaska Native, Persons with Disabilities and People of Two or More Races employees, you are conversing with some of the most disengaged workers in the federal government. The work realities of these employee groups look something like this: • Their small numbers enhance their invisibility. • They have theRead… Read more »