Inclusively Exclusive
We are human beings, not robots. We all want a role in the workplace but we do not want that role to completely define who we are as individuals.
Posts By richard regan
Want Inclusion? Look to Women
According to the Gender Intelligence Group, women leaders apply the following drivers of inclusion more often in the workplace than men.
Competency Trap
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.
The American Indian/Alaska Native Disadvantage
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 »
To Do Thinking vs. To Date Thinking
That is the reality of commitment and satisfaction in the federal government. We improved but we still come up short.
Real Effectiveness vs. Apparent Effectiveness
If you work in the federal government, you struggle with this notion of real effectiveness verses apparent effectiveness.
Disengaged but I Like My Job
Commitment and satisfaction levels of federal employees are at their lowest levels since the feds started measuring these drivers of engagement in 2003. Yet, most federal workers claim they inherently like the work they do.
Disengagement Then, Disengagement Now and Disengagement Forever
If you ever talk to American Indian/Alaska Native, Persons with Disabilities and People of Two or More Races employees, you are conversing with some of the most disengaged workers in the federal government. The work realities of these employee groups look something like this: • Their small numbers enhance their invisibility. • They have theRead… Read more »
Happiness: The Output Not the Input
All of us want to be happy particularly at work where over a lifetime we spend more time with our colleagues than our families. Happiness is an important core workplace value of millennials who want meaningful work as soon as they walk into our agencies as they fast track their way to being an executiveRead… Read more »
All Employees Matter
The Black Lives Matter movement has spawned a new crusade called All Lives Matter. Think about it for a second. Do all lives matter? If all lives really mattered, we would not need any movements at all. Let’s face it. All lives do not matter. This is something we have known for a long time.Read… Read more »