Coaching you to excel
in the government workforce
Recently, I heard the analogy that when we go to work we are leasing our time to the agency. And, when you think about whether you are happy at work, one way to consider it is whether you are receiving sufficient pay for the time you are lending to the agency. And if...
For the most part, agencies aren’t actively trying to retain employees. Worse is that there’s no efforts to retain the highest performers. There’s tons of advice and strategies available to retain government employees that I won’t rehash here. But I wanted to offer...
Do you bite your tongue because you're worried that you'll offend someone? Or, make a bad impression? Or, be rejected or ostracized? These fears are common, and sometimes appropriate. But, they also stem from our perceptions of our own influence. In the TED Talk by...
A few weeks back, I posed the question to our Fed Fans: What are you struggling with? I wanted to take a moment to address one of the responses a Fed Fan submitted. It's a struggle many of us have (or have had) at some point in our careers. The struggle: I don't enjoy...