How to Keep Your Cool During the Presidential Transition
While employees may be distracted and preoccupied with the election and inevitable fallout afterward, it’s crucial to maintain a sense of clarity in terms of your team’s expectations.
Career
What Should You Do If You Hate Your Boss?
Consider this scenario: You dread going into work not because of your daily tasks, but because you can’t stand your manager. Many of us have been there at one point in time.
Arizona’s Bat Man
Conservation is a group effort. Fortunately, this govie is bringing communities together to practice conservation and ensure our wildlife is here to stay.
How to Give Effective Performance Feedback
You can turn a soul-crushing performance appraisal into an opportunity to engage your staff. Make it an interactive conversation that energizes both you and your employee. My team and I have used the following format for performance feedback for over a decade. We use it for both glowing appraisals and tough reviews
Journey of Discovery: Interview with Dr. Ellen Stofan, NASA Chief Scientist
Dr. Ellen Stofan joined me on The Business of Government Hour to explore her role, NASA’s science priorities, efforts at promoting science, technology engineering and mathematics (STEM) education, and space science successes. Here’s an overview of our conversation.
3 Steps to Cultivate Greater Accountability at Your Agency
Are there people in your organization that regularly break promises, violate expectations, or behave badly? Does a lack of accountability and a culture of indifference encourage this behavior and make others afraid to speak up?
The Right Wrong Turns: Using Unexpected Experience to Catapult Your Career
Don’t miss the chance to learn and grow where you are so you can take a whole litany of skills with you as you advance in your career.
Why You Shouldn’t Stay at That Job (For Too Long)
While your parents may advocate for company or agency loyalty, there are important reasons millennials are job hopping more and more each year. Mental and physical health, stronger engagement within your agency, and a more resilient sense of purpose are driving millennials to jump from one job to the next.
How to Motivate Yourself
Are you here to do something or are you here for something to do?
Should I Get A Master’s Degree? 4 Things to Consider
If you do decide that it’s worth it to get a master’s degree, there are still four questions that you should seek answers to before enrolling in a program.