Posts Tagged: Featured Contributor

Career, Employee Experience, Leadership, Well-Being

Bond or Boundaries?

How do you stay engaged with your team while maintaining healthy personal boundaries? Managing polarities is an important leadership tool.

Career, Communications, Employee Experience, Leadership, Professional Development

The Joys (and Pains?) of Supervising Your Once-Upon-a-Time Peers

It’s challenging to transition from being a peer to supervising your former peers. Here are practical insights to make the change easier.

Career, Employee Experience, Policy, Well-Being, Workplace

Spotlight on Support: Introducing the Family Readiness Act

The Family Readiness Act promises military families a more supportive, stable environment, and ultimately strengthens our military’s operational readiness. Here’s what you should know about the law and its impacts.

Employee Experience, Human Resources, Professional Development

Ensuring the Future: Succession Plans in Federal Agencies

Good succession planning can enhance an agency’s continuity, stability, and adaptability. It also improves morale and helps retain staff. Here are some tips for making your own succession plan.

Communications, Social Media

Make a statement — or stay silent?

Is it better go on record regarding significant events or has issuing statements become fraught with risk for your agency?

Career, Employee Experience, Leadership, Workplace

Generational Diversity: Everybody Is Somebody

Learn how to manage the dynamics of an effective multigenerational workgroup and keep them motivated.

Employee Experience, Leadership

One Way to Mitigate Resistance to Change? Ask, Don’t Tell!

One of the most powerful and inexpensive ways to mitigate resistance to change is by getting stakeholder input early on, and often. Listen to people who will be most affected.

Career, Learning, Professional Development

Being the Best Version of You: Surviving and Thriving in a Federal Government Career

The Federal Government is its own unique ecosystem that calls for your best self. To thrive in it, follow these suggestions.

Well-Being

What Comes After ‘Drop, Cover and Hold’? (And Why Should You Care?)

Disaster planning is not a once-a-year exercise. Preparedness is essential. It could save your life. Here are some tips to get ready — and stay ready.

Career, Human Resources

Translating Military Spouse Resumes

Military spouses face unique challenges in their career paths. But they gain resilience, adaptability, and valuable skills that employers should learn to recognize.