Is Your Government Job Turning You Into A Charity Case?
Is your job leaving you feeling angry or burned out? The author explains how this can make you feel like a charity case and how you can reverse the trend.
Beatings Will Continue Until Performance Improves
“Accountability” often means that somebody needs to be fired. The author says a more productive approach in the workplace is to instead celebrate incremental progress.
The Personal ROI of Happy in Government
Happy employees make for more engaged employees. The author explains how this applies to federal employment.
Why You’ll Never Have Work/Life Balance
Many people struggle with achieving a balance between work and their personal lives. The author explains why she believes this struggle exists.
How To Get Rid of a Problem Employee… FOR GOOD
The biggest challenge government supervisors face seems to be dealing with problem employees. The author provides some suggestions for dealing with these types of employees, and more specifically, ones that don’t involve firing them.
‘I Don’t Want Your Sacrifice, I Need Your Gift.’ Signed, A Grateful Nation
The author says that sacrifice is the one thing that is not needed, or even wanted, from federal employees. She explains what she means and what she thinks is a better approach in terms of motivating federal workers.
Sacrifice Serves Nobody – And Martyrdom Isn’t Attractive
The author says that she is tired of hearing people say that sacrifice is required to get ahead in the workplace. She explains why she thinks this is a problem and as well as an alternate approach to use instead.
Is ‘Failure’ a Bad Word In Your Workplace?
The author says that a common approach to failure in organizations is to pretend that it didn’t happen, but she says that it’s actually important to embrace and integrate failure and what can be learned from it to improve going forward.
Do Your Performance Objectives Set You Up to Win?
The author says that regardless of your role within your agency, having clear criteria for exactly what success looks like in the context of your overall mission is the single most powerful tool you can use to achieve satisfaction at work.
Situation-Behavior-Impact: Why Feedback Isn’t Working!
Many organizations have classes on how to provide feedback. With all this attention and training on the process, why is it not working?
