
Government Leaders: View Your Junior Workforce as Future Leaders and Coaches
Great team performance depends on exceptional leadership. Leaders use their knowledge and vision to gain their teams’ trust.
Great team performance depends on exceptional leadership. Leaders use their knowledge and vision to gain their teams’ trust.
Three years after the onset of the Coronavirus pandemic, 60 percent of Federal Government employees operate in a hybrid work setting, and 30 percent work fully remote.
In today’s fast-paced work environment, wellness has become critical to creating a healthy and thriving workforce. Organizations that prioritize the well-being of their employees benefit from higher levels of engagement, productivity, and job satisfaction.
Government and private sector organizations alike face a daunting challenge when considering how to adapt to long-term hybrid work environments in the post-pandemic world. A hybrid environment, with a mix of remote and in-person work arrangements, introduces ambiguity and complexity, and presents opportunities to organizations. The key to a compelling, effective, and sustainable approach to hybrid work is to avoid the temptation for one-size-fits-all solutions and to instead focus on tailoring an approach that puts your workforce in a position to succeed at meeting your unique organizational mission.
Knowledge workers recognize that the key to success is sharing what they know and asking questions when they don’t. Former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld knew as much when he famously said there are “known knowns” and “unknown unknowns.”
Federal agencies have been undergoing significant transformation, requiring effective workforce strategies that can assist them in facing increasing challenges. As government leaders look for and implement initiatives to improve performance, Strategic Workforce Planning, (SWP) has become instrumental in assisting organizations to focus on their most important resource: their people
Are you developing a strategy but are unsure where to start, what to rely on, and who to engage when driving a business, organization, or agency forward? Start by enabling the operational workforce. The workforce includes those who are executing daily tasks and operations of the many programs within an organization. Enabling the workforce gives them authority, allowing them to access their full potential to achieve desired results, and helps the Government develop, communicate, and implement strategy.
Hybrid, Data, and Resiliency are In. The mission is at the forefront.
Today’s workforce is full of knowledge workers. Knowledge workers are employees who create and use knowledge and apply critical thinking to complete their jobs. There are many such workers in the Government. As a consulting firm, we find that all of our employees are knowledge workers.