10 (Relatively) Painless Icebreakers for Your Next Meeting
To make your next meeting a bit less cringe-worthy, here are 10 suggestions for easy, fun, and relatively painless icebreakers.
Leadership
From Down the Hall: Here’s How to Make Sure Executives, Managers and Employees Get Each Other’s Message
Remember the game telephone? One person whispers a message into the next person’s ear and that person whispers to the next, all the way down the line until the message no longer makes sense? That’s how communication within a large organization can feel sometimes.
7 Books to Help You Prepare for the Presidential Transition
Don’t wait until Election Day. Dive into these books to get prepared for the presidential transition.
Senior Executive Service: 101
A discussion about the resurgence of the SES and how govies can better prepare themselves for these senior positions.
Management-A Presidential Priority
This interview with David Eagles is part of a DorobekINSIDER series with experts looking to help shape a management platform for the new administration. Check out all of the stories in the new series, Good Government Management, here. The current presidential race is in full swing and we’ve heard a lot of promises being made,Read… Read more »
How the Government’s Best Place to Work Does Onboarding
NASA Goddard has given the term “bill of rights” an entirely new meaning and redefined the way new employees are treated on their first day at work.
Tips for Handling Difficult People: Part 1
In this series of posts I will use Eddy’s It’s All Your Fault to explain what a high conflict personality is and how to deal with such personalities in the workplace. In this post (Part 1), I’ll explore the basics and some what-not-to-do tips. In future posts, I will explore tips for specific personality types… Read more »
Grace Lee Boggs vs Morpheus (or Belonging IN or TO the Public Sector)
These tensions between self and community identity, the known and unknown, encapsulate some fundamental things for me about working for equity in the government sector.
17 Awesome Civic Leaders in Cambridge
Cambridge and the broader Cambridge area is a hub for civic-related activity — most specifically, civic technology. The number of exciting initiatives and incredible people is overwhelming, so we decided to make a list of awesome civic leaders in Cambridge (order doesn’t matter).
How to Be More Compassionate
Showing compassion could help you feel better about yourself and the world around you. Here are some tips on how to do it.