4 Tips to Maintain Focus at Work When Life is Happening
Four tips to help you remain focused at work when you have something else in your life competing for your attention.
Career
Is a “Standing” Meeting the Key to Team Creativity?
The next time you’re tasked with coordinating a team meeting to come up with the next big creative innovative idea for your agency, remove all of the chairs from the room.
9 Ways to Make the Most of Your Summer Fridays
If you have Summer Fridays on your calendar, what can you do to make the most of these special days?
Bringing Disney (and Pixar) Into the Workplace
While we have outgrown many things, like baby food, safety scissors, and napping in public with impunity, there are some parts of our childhood that stay with us forever. The movies we watched are one such example. What gives Disney and Pixar films staying power are the lessons they can teach us at all stages… Read more »
10 Lies My Federal Government Managers Have Told Me
I have an open door policy When I come into your office, you are totally distracted. You check your cell phone and constantly look at your computer. Some days your door is completed shut and we never see your face. Your participation is voluntary These are code words for mandatory participation and everyone in theRead… Read more »
Do Millennials Lack Grit?
Different engagement drivers in the workplace have a tendency to change in importance as younger workers get older.
5 Ways to Love Your Job More
Five tips that will help you not only grow in your job, but learn to really, really like it.
How to Be Agile, Flexible and Fearless in Your Government Career
When you find a problem or opportunity, put yourself in a position to seize it, even if it doesn’t fit cleanly within your position description or your existing skill and knowledge set.
Charting Your Career Course
Some careers are the result of one of two specific options. People are either born with a specific talent to earn the job they want to do — or life takes them on various adventures which allows them to learn diverse skill sets that keep them gainfully employed.
3 Red Flags to Be Aware of in a Federal Job Interview
The three red flags interviewees should pay attention to when interviewing for a federal job.