The California State University has made remarkable achievements in helping students, faculty, and the community cope with the COVID-19 pandemic.
Crisis Leadership
Perhaps the biggest challenge the Covid-19 Pandemic brings is how to lead in a crisis, in which the ground appears to change by the hour and in some instances by the minute.
How to Ace Interviews in the Age of a Pandemic
Job searching during a crisis can be difficult but not impossible. In this case, it does mean that recruiting and hiring becomes digitized in order to protect yourself, your employees, and the candidates. While some companies are slowing or halting their hiring efforts until the situation improves, some are still actively seeking new candidates.
Personal Development and Mental Health Issues During This Crisis
Personal development is not a long-term goal or objective, or even social ambition. It is the continuous assessment along with realigning of essential goals that enables you to properly identify and optimize your functional abilities along with potential.
How to Recharge when You Can’t Take Naps at Work
Sleeping on the job is typically frowned upon, and if you work for the federal government, it’s actually officially a workplace taboo. In November 2019, the U.S. government banned naps at work. The General Services Administration issued a statement that said all persons are prohibited from sleeping in federal buildings, except when such activity is expressly authorized by an agency official.
Change Your Organization’s Weather
Wildfires are much more prevalent these days across the globe. They have the potential of burning large areas in just days or weeks. There is usually a great deal of struggle in containing such wildfires, with the risks of homes and lives being lost looming over those who battle the fires.
How to Make Big Decisions More Effectively
When it’s time to make a big decision, do you ask for advice? Many of us do, and our default behavior is to go to our most trusted friends or colleagues. These are the people you already talk to often, and who know you well. There is a reason you are inclined to talk with them. It is easier and less energy-intensive for your brain and theirs because they are familiar.
Government Staffing Model Reform in a Post COVID-19 World
Few if any organizations, private or public, are prepared to respond to the depth, severity, and magnitude of the changes this onslaught is having, and will have, on staffing and workplace operations in the future.
COVID-19 and the Changing Employment Landscape
2020’s game changing employment landscape across the globe is creating unwelcome change, for billions in the workforce, as we head into Q2. Covid-19 is the antagonistic contagion, forcing a shared, crystallized vision for all of us, personally and professionally.