Coaching you to excel
in the government workforce
Over the past few weeks, I've talked about how face-to-face training is not effective if you're looking to develop hands-on-experience. One of the easiest (and least used) methods for professional development is job shadowing. Done well, it will be the most effective,...
For me, a career crisis normally happens each Sunday evening, just as the sun is starting to set, and the gap between my hopes for myself and the reality of my life starts to diverge so painfully that I normally end up weeping into a pillow. - Alain de Botton While I...
Temporary reassignments are known to most government employees as details. For the most part, details are seen as an opportunity to meet workforce needs of the agency and a developmental opportunity for employees for hands-on work experience. Unofficially, details are...
In a series of classes I taught about how to develop employees, the managers came up with a plan for how they would develop their high, solid, and low performing employees. With the exception of the low performers, the list of development approaches seldom included...