That’s All She Wrote: Lessons Learned as a Featured Blogger
Here are some of the lessons I learned over the past three months of blogging.
The First Word in Employee Engagement
When we take on ownership of employee engagement, it helps ourselves as well as our colleagues to feel more involved and less burnt out.
The American Indian/Alaska Native Disadvantage
The Office of Personnel Management released my agency’s engagement scores for 2015 last week and for the second year in a row, Asian Americans are the highest engaged group of employees by race at 72%. For the 7th year in a row, my group, American Indians/Alaska Natives had the lowest engagement levels by race ofRead… Read more »
10x Public Administrators
In the tech industry, people speak of “10x” programmers, those who are ten times as productive as average. Who are the 10x public administrators? The 10 is figurative, since there is no agreed-upon quantification of productivity in programming or public administration. And in both fields productivity includes creativity, rather than grinding through a set process.Read… Read more »
TSP Talk Weekly Wrap Up
Stocks were up this week and all of the TSP stock funds were up more than 3%. Monday’s open for the S&P 500 gapped up from last Friday’s closing price of 1951.36, which I couldn’t fit on the weekly chart below, leaving an open gap between the weeks. Momentum was on the bulls side forRead… Read more »
To Do Thinking vs. To Date Thinking
That is the reality of commitment and satisfaction in the federal government. We improved but we still come up short.
Build a Team You Can Win With in 3 Steps
The working adult spends 20% of their time performing their job. Read my 3 tips about ensuring that the people you work with don’t make your life a living nightmare…
7 Questions Government Agencies Should Ask Before Letting Customers Go Wallet-less
There’s plenty of potential for government to offer mobile pay, but agencies should ask seven important questions before adopting mobile wallet technology.
Choose Happiness!
Do you feel like you are trapped in your job? I think we’ve all felt that way occasionally, but if you often feel like an animal that needs to chew off its foot to escape the trap of your job, your stress could lead to health impacts.
Interagency Bicycle Group
How does a person work up the courage to put two wheels to pavement?