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Self-evaluation is crucial for federal employees to assess their performance, skills, behavior, and growth prospects.

If you know you’re ready to retire and have all your financial planning out of the way, you think you may be done. But do you know how you’re going to spend your time? Use this infographic as a reference guide to plan the day-to-day of your retirement!

Looking to forge and develop effective connections within your virtual teams? Read over our new infographic with five easy steps to build a connected virtual workforce!

The Association Of Inspectors General (AIG) met in person for the first time since 2019 at their Annual Conference in Washington, DC, October 12-14, 2022. Management Concepts was pleased to support the conference for the first time as a Gold Sponsor, and meet the many inspectors general (IGs) and those in related roles at the federal, state, and local levels who came from across North America to participate in the event.

Human Resource departments have it rough. There are many who believe that HR departments are only extensions of corporate power largely created to protect companies from lawsuits, scandals, and to quash employee grievances. These same companies often regard HR as somewhat of a nuisance: a department that, with all its administrative policies and demands for compliance, can interfere with day-to-day operations and increase the cost of doing business.

The Year 2017, is now in our rear-view mirror and for Federal Human Resource practitioners, it was a year of highs and lows.

At the end of 2017 HR practitioners were still trying to create innovative ways to deal with leadership turnover, technology upgrades, the streamlining administrative systems, labor and management concerns, and employee demographics shifts, employee retention/engagement, to highlight a few.

As an organization that focuses on unleashing the potential of individuals, teams, and organizations, Management Concepts is continually striving to help students and client organizations get the most out its training courses, coaching engagements, leadership development programs, and other workforce initiatives. In past blogs, we’ve shared information about how to evaluate training, dispelling myths, and how to make training stick.

Over the past few weeks I’ve been reading the recent studies from Gallup, SHRM, and the Rand Corporation that describe the current experience of employees in the American workplace. The results from these studies present an interesting and contrasting, portrait of work in the U.S. today.

Every day there are countless articles and studies casting aspersions on millennials. This cohort of young adults has been blamed for the declining viability of chain restaurants, gyms, diamonds, and even the National Football League.

Millennials are frequently stereotyped as selfish, entitled, and disloyal to their organizations. For this reason, HR specialists, leadership, and managers alike may find it difficult to cater to this growing segment of the global workforce.

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