“She Wants the Titles to Be in Red.”
Artificial intelligence (AI) can alleviate the frustrating parts of your job and augment your current abilities. But there are areas that should remain AI-free.
Human Resources
From Compliance to Capability: Turning Workforce Constraints Into Strategic Advantage
In 2026, public-sector workforce challenges are structural, not temporary, requiring agencies to move beyond traditional staffing models toward intentional workforce architecture. Rather than focusing solely on headcount and hiring pipelines, leading organizations are designing capability systems that align roles, skills, workflows, and technology directly to mission outcomes.
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.
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.
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.
Initiating a PIP Your Employee Can Survive
How to put together a good faith Performance Improvement Plan that helps your emplyee improve — and keep their job.
Getting a Performance Improvement Plan (PIP): What To Do
What should you do if you’re given a performance improvement plan? Here are steps that may help you preserve your rights and even keep your 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.
Bureaucracy vs. Bandwidth: The Global Struggle for Public-Sector Talent in the AI Era
Governments worldwide are chasing digital transformation while trapped in legacy hiring, training, and leadership systems that can’t keep pace with innovation. To lead in the AI era, senior executives must commit to a Digital Workforce Compact that prioritizes agility, learning, and trust over bureaucracy.