Understanding Organizational Culture
To truly understand how to move forward with organizational change, we must first understand organizational culture.
Posts Tagged: leadership
Why Employee Recognition Isn’t Working
Employee recognition programs work when they are used to recognize and reward achieving performance goals. Recognition, however, does not work well when organizations try to use large organizational programs to make employees feel valued individually.
3 Steps to Employee Engagement
Businesses are talking about employee engagement being the secret to success, but ask them how to get there and responses span the spectrum.
The Employees You Should Worry About Losing: Your Average Ones
Most supervisors and leaders spend too much time and energy focusing on their top performers and/or their low performers. But the group they should really be concerned about is the solid middle group – Joe & Jane Average. Why?
Undergoing Strategic Transformation at the State Department
How can governments optimize their digital transformation initiatives? A leader at the State Department answered this question.
Change-Maker Checklist
Innovation is a mindset, and this checklist will help you get into it.
We Watched the State of the Union So You Didn’t Have To
Putting as much politics aside as possible, here are highlights of what government workers should know about the State of the Union.
7 Controllable Factors that Impact Workplace Success
While every job comes with its own list of specifications, there are a number of universal qualities that can enhance workplace productivity.
Effective Techniques for Managing Understaffed Cybersecurity Teams
The government has a great need for managers to recognize the downstream impact of running an understaffed team. Managers face the challenge of balancing organizational goals, maintaining morale, prioritizing work efforts and reducing attrition.
3 Lessons on Life and Law Taught by the Kitchen Sink
My favorite quote that I’ve ever come across was written on the wall of a high school bathroom stall. “The meaning of life is a life of meaning,” read the handwriting, scribbled in bold Sharpie on cracked and faded tile.