Coaching you to excel
in the government workforce
A piece of advice I heard upon moving to Washington DC was, "Don't engage with the crazy." Mostly this advice was about staying safe on my favorite form of transportation - the metro - being that I was a naive new transplant. It is the basic principle many children...
Meetings and email may be tied in being the biggest time wasters in the modern workplace. We've talked about how to be a meeting hero and to set ground rules to have more effective meetings. But, we've not discussed how to be more effective with our email. So today,...
Today is DAY 20 of the 20 DAY HAPPINESS CHALLENGE! How cool is that? No matter how many of the 20 days worth of activities you completed, you should take a moment to congratulate yourself. Whether or not you realize it, you have made the workplace a little more...
The less influence you have with someone (read: less power), the less you can influence them. Or, said differently, it's hard to get people to do something if you don't have the authority to make them do it. One way to gain that influence is through positive...