Category: Morning Buzz

How To Handle the Death of a Coworker

Today’s Buzz is by Kylie Bayer, HR Manager with the City of McMinnville. LinkedIn & Twitter What I’m Watching: Schitt’s Creek and I have never laughed harder. Highly recommend. What I’m Reading: White Oleander, I never read it! What I’m Listening to: an HR podcast, Kammersations. It’s a podcast through our benefits/insurance provider, Citycounty Insurance … Continued

That Vision Thing

Routt County elected a new Commissioner in 2018, an event that kicked off an opportunity. Aside from the usual process of on-boarding a new elected official this person brought a political realignment of the Board of County Commissioners. The opportunity to re-evaluate and update our three year strategic plan came two years early! The Commissioners … Continued

Accessibility vs. Security in Public Service

Today’s Morning Buzz is by Kendra Davis What I’m Reading: Moon of the Crusted Snow by Waubgeshig Rice (trying to be intentional about reading books from a variety of authors and this one from an indigenous Canadian journalist is VERY good) What I’m Listening To: Just a lot of Janelle Monáe What I’m Watching: Youtube … Continued

Don’t Separate your “Full Self” At Work

Mike Skibbe, Village of Buffalo Grove, IL – Twitter and LinkedIn What I’m Watching: True Detective Season 3 What I’m Reading: The Goal by Eliyahu M. Goldratt What I’m Listening To: The Dollop Episode 15: Ten Cent Beer Night If you’ll indulge me for a minute, I’d like to talk about my full self. Not … Continued

The Importance of the Candidate Experience

Brandi Leos, City of Tigard, Oregon.  Find me on Twitter and LinkedIn What I’m Watching: The Daily Show with Trevor Noah What I’m Reading: Dare to Lead by Brene Brown What I’m Listening To: NYT The Daily’s summary of the Michael Cohen hearing We all know that the hiring process can be improved.  HR professionals … Continued

Wait! You’re Headed the Wrong Way! (Am I?)

Today’s Buzz is by brand new Morning Buzzer Kim Nakahodo – connect with her on LinkedIn & Twitter! What I’m Watching  with the kiddos: The Dragon Prince (Season 2 just came out!) What I’m Watching without the kiddos: Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt (Again, season 4 recently came out!) What I’m Reading: Killers of the Flower Moon: … Continued

The Power of Yes

What I’m watching: Into the Spiderverse (worth the hype, imo) What I’m  reading:  Andrew Kleine’s book “City on the Line” (join the club) What I’m listening to: Maynard Ferguson Can we find time to meet? Do you have a minute? Do you have bandwidth for…? Can you join this interview panel? Do you think you could attend this … Continued

Your Opinion is Valuable

What I’m watching: Game of Thrones (rewatching all 7 seasons, winter is coming!) What I’m  reading: Books that are teaching me about accounting (hooray) What I’m listening to: ASTROWORLD – Travis Scott (still in heavy rotation) Whenever people ask me how work is going, I never really have anything bad to say. The fact that … Continued

It’s Not Rocket Science

This post is by Kirsten Wyatt and she’s sharing it in today’s Morning Buzz in response to a great question during a diversity discussion at #CCCMA19 about some ways to make diversity an organizational priority, and actionable first steps. What I’m Reading: People I Want to Punch in the Throat by Jen Mann What I’m … Continued

Local Government Passion and You

Right Now w/ Joey Garcia (LinkedIn / Twitter) What I’m Reading – Are Prisons Necessary, by Angela Davis  What I’m Binging – The Expanse What I’m Cooking – The Fluffiest Buttermilk Pancakes Getting through the Low I have recently proposed a number of new initiatives that been shot down immediately or politely “considered”. My ideas have been too grand … Continued

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