Unsatisfactory Reports I was a U S govt ‘war worker’ at the Air Force logistics depot on Hickam Field/AFB, Hawaii during and, for a few more years, after WW2. When hostilities ended I was reassigned from aircrew parachute and emergency survival gear maintenance to the depot Maintenance Division’s staff office that investigated, documented and processedRead… Read more »
The Social Customer has been discussed in great detail across countless blogs and web sites. In my opinion, no one has done a better job of providing a more complete definition than that provided by Jacob Morgan’s Chess Media Group, with Attensity, at the end of June, 2010. With Jacob’s permission I am including hisRead… Read more »
Check out the most recent editions of the Leadership Landscape, the periodical published by the faculty of the Federal Executive Institute. http://www.feiaa.org/leadershiplandscape.php
After reading a recent survey conducted to learn more about the role of leaders producing healthy, high performing teams, and learning how employees felt about their job as a source of fulfillment – it got me to thinking most people probably could use one word to categorize their job. So, I’m curious – which LRead… Read more »
Perhaps one of the most popular blog topics in the working world is bagging on meetings. Perhaps some of them are even written on smart phones during meetings. No one is talking about the one-on-one with a boss or a colleague to work out an issue or smooth through wrinkles in an action plan, orRead… Read more »
A new governmentwide survey finds general satisfaction among rank and file federal workers and for the first time gives the government hard numbers on the number of feds who telework. The 2010 Federal Viewpoint Survey, administered by the Office of Personnel Management (the government’s HR office), compiled answers from more than 263,000 Executive branch workers,Read… Read more »
The Six Villains of Gov 2.0 or for that matter, social media within organisations. What do the villains in the public sector look like? What do the heroes look like?
When I was a PMF in 1998, I attended a week-long training in Shepardsville, W.V. along with a number of other PMFs. At that same facility, there was a group of mid-career federal employees who were also receiving training. Neither group interacted with each other except for a couple of incidents where the mid-career groupRead… Read more »
Sara Estes Cohen Project Manager, Teracore, Inc. www.teracore.com Department of Homeland Security First Responder Communities of Practicehttps://communities.firstresponder.gov Govloop.com Gulf Coast Oil Spill Forumhttps://www.govloop.com/group/gulfcoastoilspillforum 1. What was your path to public service/current job? Born and raised in New Orleans, after college I moved home and I was living there and working as a rock and rollRead… Read more »
Reply to @lindanaiman if you can help (looks like an opportunity to me). She writes a cool blog here. Her original tweet follows: @lindanaiman How do you create a #culture of #learning and #creativity that integrates #innovation into daily work? I’m looking for case studies.