Tackling Imposter Syndrome in Public Service Let’s talk about something incredibly common, often difficult to name, and potentially career-limiting if left unaddressed: Imposter Syndrome. You’ve probably come across the concept …
“What is my name?” A Fijian Peace Corps volunteer says in a trailing-off kind of way after I ask what her name is. She continues, “In Fiji, I am Claudine…so …
When she was little, Ruby talked an atypical amount about clouds. She wanted to live on a cloud, jump on a cloud, and eat a cloud. I especially remember that …
We were in the boss’s living room and were about to have a leadership team retreat. Just 7 people on this health services team. I love these cozy, informal-feeling retreats. …
13 years ago I started a 5-year stint of flying to Washington DC one time per month for 12 days. I did this for 5 years. I was doing one-on-one coaching and teaching …
Having conversations about the realities of life and work while not talking about politics can be complex to navigate. Over the last 13 years, my team has been brought in to …
Expectations get a bad rap. “Happiness is reality minus expectations,” is a refrain I hear from some seemingly enlightened circles, and it sounds good in theory. “The moment you stop having expectations is the moment you start having peace,” I think was said by people who don’t actually live in reality. I’m not buying this expectation of having no expectations. As I see it, we all have expectations all the time, but we become most aware of them when the expectations aren’t met.
BEING SCRAPPY I love learning languages. In college I took all the offered classes of Spanish and Swahili, and later, plastered my outhouse in the Peace Corps with weekly updated …
By now, you’ve certainly heard terms like burnout, quiet quitting, and the Great Resignation or Reshuffle all too often. These trends help illustrate the current state of the workforce. Companies …
September 21, 2022, by Katie Wittekind, Lancaster Leadership Effective city councils are not created by accident. It is no shock to anyone that city councils often struggle with effectiveness. Not …
