Move the Goal Post and Declare Victory
What do you do when you can’t achieve a goal for reasons outside your control?
Career
6 Ideas to Engage Your Employees
The more we let our people go as opposed to shackling them to their desks, the more productive they will be.
Learning to Cope
In a dream world, every office would come with kittens and puppies, free therapists or nap rooms. The reality is there are low cost and low interference tactics we can implement to provide relief to our front line staff.
Want Engagement? Act Like a Volunteer
Do you like your work so much you would do it for free? Volunteer for work. It seems to be the quickest path to engagement in a world that will not stop talking about disengagement.
The Best Government Conferences of 2016 [Updated]
This list should help you plan for 2016 and start advocating for those precious professional development dollars. Here you’ll find brand new events you might want to check out as well as established events that might be new to you. Many are essential conferences that those working in government cannot do without.
Training Evaluation: The Best Ways to Assess Success
You know how somebody with a hammer sees everything as a nail? After a dozen years measuring and assessing the impact of workforce training, I now have a hard time not seeing things from the perspective of the training evaluation models I use in my day-to-day work. When a situation arises that involves some sort… Read more »
More Awesome Answers to Common Interview Questions
Winning answers to common job interview questions.
It’s About Energy, Not Engagement
Let’s concentrate our efforts more on the energy levels we bring to the workplace by paying more attention to brain science.
How to Pursue Public Service Without a Plan
When starting out in your career, navigating the professional world can be overwhelming. There’s a host of information out there telling you what steps to take and how you’re supposed to plan out your career. It can feel like you’re making one giant, continuous checklist to plan out the rest of your life: build resume,Read… Read more »
Why You Should Treat Your Job Like an Internship
Perhaps the reason we cling to the “get what you came for” attitude during graduate school (or a post-doctoral stint, or a low-paying internship) is that we need something to get us through the phase where we pay our dues, the phase where the hours are long and the paychecks are small. The incentive to… Read more »