Greetings everyone — Check out the new report that the U.S. Office of Personnel Management has issued on best practices in mentoring. Effective mentoring is key to developing the future public service. Is your agency working to facilitate mentoring efforts for the government workforce?
Over the course of this week I had the opportunity to visit with a wide variety of executives. They ranged from leaders of multi-billion dollar enterprises to emerging entrepreneurs. What struck me most was the polarization of attitudes across two distinct camps, namely the “sea monkeys” versus the “seahorses”. Monkey Sea, Monkey Do Sea MonkeysRead… Read more »
Seems to me like this little economic crisis thing may just propel our profession into an organic change of its own. For some time I’ve thought that the next evolution for HR will be to displace responsibility to operational management. Said differently, that we enable others to do for themselves what we’ve been doing forRead… Read more »
After the last few weeks of my politically-inspired rantings, how about something on the lighter side? I have been drowning this week in a round of KSA writing. For those of you who don’t know, that’s Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities. KSAs appear as a list of questions that must be answered in narrative form andRead… Read more »
Once he takes office, President-elect Obama should issue an executive order re-establishing the federal sector labor-management partnership and all federal agencies should have to review service contracts and cancel wasteful ones, according to recommendations issued today by the National Treasury Employees Union. The group represents roughly 150,000 federal employees and 31 agencies or departments. ItRead… Read more »
So the vote is in and it looks as if Joe Lieberman will keep his chairmanship of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee. Of course he loses his seat on the Environment and Public Works Committee. I’m not sure yet how I feel about this. Lieberman, like anyone, should be allowed to support anyRead… Read more »
One of the first things The Eye learned as he began his new beat is that many federal workers have felt undervalued, under-appreciated and frustrated in recent years about the lack of innovation and creativity allowed in the workplace. “Front-line employees have a really good idea of how to do the work of the federalRead… Read more »
A survey is being conducted to help select a tagline for the new US Measurement System Office. The tagline options are: 1) Enabling Measurement Solutions Beyond Measure 2) Where Measurement Solutions and Innovation Converge 3) Where Measurement Science and Innovation Converge 4) Powering the Engine of Innovation 5) The Resarcher’s Innovation Toolkit 6) The MeasurementRead… Read more »
Barack Obama’s Agenda for E-governance: Open Government is Its Main Plank But What About the Roadblocks? by Dr D.C.Misra* All eyes are on the U.S.President-elect Barack Obama, who will assume the charge of his office on January 20, 2009. He has also set an ambitious agenda for e-governance. Obama has very successfully used information technologyRead… Read more »
By Dennis D. McDonald In these heady days of transition, as we think about ways to improve government, it’s temping to over-sell the benefits of “Web 2.0.” I personally believe in Web 2.0 tools and techniques and how they can support what I call the Three C’s of Web 2.0: Collaboration, Content, and Communication. JustRead… Read more »