This is the first post in a three part series about the newly released report, Open for Business: Leveraging Open Government to Improve Agency Operations. I’d encourage you to check out the Open Government Analyst briefing by the Government Business Council, the research arm of Government Executive magazine and OpenText . The report includes aRead… Read more »
From the NASPAA Nonprofit Section: “Scholarship in Action Conference Dates August 9-11, 2012 at Auburn University Abstracts due March 1, 2012 Scholars and practitioners in the areas of nonprofit leadership, community engagement and public scholarship are invited to submit papers for presentation, discussion and possible inclusion in a published volume. Specific topics include: Nonprofit Leadership,Read… Read more »
From the NASPAA Nonprofit Section: “Scholarship in Action Conference Dates August 9-11, 2012 at Auburn University Abstracts due March 1, 2012 Scholars and practitioners in the areas of nonprofit leadership, community engagement and public scholarship are invited to submit papers for presentation, discussion and possible inclusion in a published volume. Specific topics include: Nonprofit Leadership,Read… Read more »
Around this time, various IT and professional web sites list what they consider the top skills for the coming year. It’s interesting to look back and see what skills stay on the lists, what skills fall off the list, and the new skills that appear. I haven’t seen such a list for government workers soRead… Read more »
A manager asked me the best way to “knock the rough edges off” his team? I said, “How about we grow them until the rough edges are covered?” Are you a knocker or a grower?
Social Connect via: As the public service changes and let’s not doubt it is changing quite a bit, the need for a new management style emerges due to a much different set of employees to manage. I’ve argued before about the evolving public service from the point of view of an employee. Today, I’d likeRead… Read more »
American City and County Magazine ran an article recently titled Trimming the fat-or-not with Lean Six Sigma by Stephen Ursery. The article refers to the success of Lean Six Sigma in Irving Texas and its failure in Erie County, New York, according to Mark Cornell spokesperson for Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz. In Irving Texas,Read… Read more »
What does political savvy mean to the average employee? If you have ever watched the TV sitcom The Office you probably have a good idea of what political savvy is not about. While the politics of The Office employees may seem funny on TV, in the real world of work these behaviors could kill yourRead… Read more »
We have an image of leaders – whether it is John Wayne leading a charge in combat, or JFK declaring to the world the USA will put a man on the moon by the end of that decade, or Steve Jobs radically changing established market segments like music, telecom, and computers with new technology. Traditionally,Read… Read more »
GEAR. The Performance Management Pilot you’ve never heard of. In November 2011, the Employee Performance Management Workgroup put forth a set of recommendations to help catapult our federal government into the arena of 21st century performance strategy. The five key goals they’d like agencies to address are as follows: Articulate a High-Performance Culture Align EmployeeRead… Read more »