Impact of AI on Workforces

One certainty is that change is occurring in the workplace due to AI and whenever there is change, workers will become anxious, and employee engagement will suffer.

Inclusive by Design: Practical Leadership for Local Governments in Changing Times

Inclusive leadership is about how we engage with our communities, and create workplaces where everyone can thrive and do their best.

When Values Are Just Words: Are Your Actions Aligned with Your Company’s Culture?

If your company is built on a culture of values, you must support those values as your own, and you must live in demonstration of those values.

How Public Sector Leaders Can Improve Team Alignment and Collaboration

Effective leaders don’t just drive outcomes. They shape how teams work together to achieve them. Alignment doesn’t happen by accident.

Could AI-Enhanced Recruitment Help Eliminate Bias While Expanding Government Talent Pools?

AI can make the public sector more inclusive, transparent and efficient, but only if it’s used with care and oversight.

No Better Way to Manage Performance

Agencies have very different management problems, making one-size-fits-all edicts on how to proceed suspect.

Great Leaders Ask Questions

Great Leaders Ask Questions

Excerpted from “Great Leaders ASK Questions – A Fortune 100 List” “Leadership is not as much about knowing the right answers, as it is about knowing the right questions.” Are you familiar with T.A.? You are probably familiar with A.A. – Alcoholics Anonymous. Well,...

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Coffee Shop Productivity Tips

Coffee Shop Productivity Tips

The smell of fresh grounds. The presence of other people quietly conversing or tapping at their laptops. The stimulating energy of a common gathering place. Coffee. What’s not to like about settling in to do some work at a coffee shop? Many people take advantage of a...

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A New Year, but My Life Gets Older

A New Year, but My Life Gets Older

I went to a funeral last week. It was a sobering start to a new year. He was a young man, 53, leaving a wife and two young children behind him. I hadn’t met him, but his brother is a good friend of mine. There is something about funerals. They seem to be able to blow...

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Significant Service

Significant Service

Do you work in a productive, inspiring workplace? Or is your organization’s culture primarily frustrating and dull? Tiny HR’s  2015 Engagement and Culture Report revealed that only 31 percent of employees feel strongly valued at work. While that is better than the 21%...

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Pushing the Limits of Growth

Pushing the Limits of Growth

Adapted from Pacing for Growth; Why Intelligent Drives Long-Term Success, out in Feb. 2017 It’s difficult to know what the “right” amount of restraint is for a business. Sometimes, leaders lead with too little restraint, sometimes with too much. What’s clear is that...

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My 6 Pillars of Resolve

My 6 Pillars of Resolve

I attended a cancer conference recently and some of the medics said to me “I wish some of my patients were like you”. It didn’t register with me initially but later I realized that perhaps I had the ability to go places they couldn’t reach. A regular stumbling block...

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Career Inertia

Career Inertia

As stated in Newton’s first law of motion: an object either remains at rest or continues to move at a constant velocity, unless acted upon by a net force. If a career, a noun, can be connected to an object, also a noun, a career that is either stopped or stalled...

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