Coaching you to excel
in the government workforce
What is one question, quandary, challenge, problem, issue, pickle, obstacle, or dilemma that you've been facing over the last few days? It could be work related. Or family related. Career related. Or even more profoundly existential. (Ok, maybe not something...
Today's Happiness Challenge activity for day 17 is to ask an administrative assistant to let you help them out with something. As we've discussed in prior posts within the Happiness Challenge is that administrative assistants are often under appreciated. They also...
It not unusual to say that employees need to be held accountable. And what that usually means is that they are responsible for anything that doesn't go well. Unfortunately, this accountability often doesn't extend to giving them credit for successes. And, if you work...
For Day 14, we have another thank-you note activity. Gestures of appreciation. The most positive feedback I've gotten about the Happiness Challenge so far is about giving the thank you notes. And I got to thinking why that might be. Gazing out my office window...