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.
While government workers are usually motivated by intrinsic values of the organizational mission, understanding the unique factors of what makes your employees more satisfied and engaged at work is an important organizational feedback loop that lowers employee turnover, increases employee loyalty, improves productivity, and ultimately results in greater organizational impact and long-term success.
When you’ve earned your team’s trust, they can achieve greater success together and individually. They’ll work more collaboratively and accomplish tasks with greater efficiency. When they know they can put their trust in you, your team will be more likely to support your decisions and bring their full enthusiasm to their work.
These days, your LinkedIn profile is often one of the first ways people will be introduced to you professionally, but few people take advantage of the powerful tools the platform offers.
Here are a few biggies in the grammar department.
Here are some of the lessons I learned over the past three months of blogging.
When we take on ownership of employee engagement, it helps ourselves as well as our colleagues to feel more involved and less burnt out.
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 »
In the tech industry, people speak of “10x” programmers, those who are ten times as productive as average. Who are the 10x public administrators? The 10 is figurative, since there is no agreed-upon quantification of productivity in programming or public administration. And in both fields productivity includes creativity, rather than grinding through a set process.Read… Read more »
Stocks were up this week and all of the TSP stock funds were up more than 3%. Monday’s open for the S&P 500 gapped up from last Friday’s closing price of 1951.36, which I couldn’t fit on the weekly chart below, leaving an open gap between the weeks. Momentum was on the bulls side forRead… Read more »