No Mentor, No Problem: Navigating Your Career Independently
Having a mentor certainly can help advance your career, but it isn’t the only way to grow professionally. A featured contributor describes specific, valuable alternatives.
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Talent Velocity: How Governments Can Break the Bureaucracy Bandwidth Barrier
Government leaders face a growing gap between mission urgency and the speed at which talent can be mobilized. Enter the concept of talent velocity.
Improve Organizational Culture and Success with Work Social Events
Social events can strengthen collaboration among colleagues and improve morale. Here are some suggestions for getting started.
What if Your Employee is Struggling, and You Suspect a Disability?
An employee with performance issues also could be disabled. Even if they haven’t asked for accommodation, you may be legally required to provide one.
Building a Better Meeting
Learn a step-by-step way to construct effective meetings that engage your participants and yield better outcomes.
Post-Fork in the Road … A Year Later and the Reality of Reinvention
Career forks aren’t clean breaks. They’re braided journeys. This article explores how federal leaders can navigate the messy “now what?” after transition, with practical strategies to reinvent purpose and translate experience into new value.
Writing and Implementing a Proper Performance Improvement Plan
Learn to write and implement a PIP that really helps your poor-performing employee get back on track and keep their job.
Getting a Performance Improvement Plan (PIP): How to Try to Determine if It Is Not Sincere
Sometimes, performance improvement plans are used, pro-forma, to pave the way to a firing. Here are some tips to tell if that’s what’s happening to you.
The Government Doesn’t Have a Talent Pipeline Problem. It Has a Talent Utilization Problem.
The workforce challenge is often seen as a hiring and retention crisis. That obscures a more basic issue: the chronic underutilization of existing talent.
AI, Agentic AI: Adopt or Adapt?
AI and agentic AI are continuing to expand in the workforce. Are we adapting, adopting, or both?