Today’s Morning Buzz is brought to you by Katie Beemer, recent MPA graduate. Connect on Twitter, LinkedIn, or Instagram. What I’m Reading: A Guidebook for City and County Managers: Meeting Today’s Challenges by retired city manager Jim Bourey. What I’m Watching: Inventing Anna on Netflix What I’m Listening To: Lover by Taylor Swift In local government, … Continued
Have you ever been asked what you do for work and had to quickly think through how do I explain this in way that makes sense? Have you ever sat and asked yourself, what do I actually do for work!? If so, join the club! Many of us that have worked in analyst roles know … Continued
Danya Perry Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Wake County, North Carolina Twitter | LinkedIn Reach In, Reach Out, Reach Over. Danya Perry, Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion for Wake County, North Carolina, joined the podcast to discuss his work in local government diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). He provided a definition of DEI … Continued
Today’s Morning Buzz is by Greg LeBlanc. Connect with Greg on LinkedIn. What I’m Reading: Off the Map: Lost Spaces, Invisible Cities, Forgotten Islands, Feral Places and What They Tell Us About the World by Alastair Bonnett What I’m Watching: The Newsroom What I’m Listening to: “Don’t Stop” by Sonny Cleveland In the corner of … Continued
This guest commentary is by Bob J. Lavigna with CPS HR Consulting. Bob is the author of the book “Engaging Government Employees,” and director of the Institute for Public Sector Employee Engagement, a division of CPS HR Services, an independent government agency. This article originally appeared on RouteFifty. Jim Goodnight, CEO of SAS, a … Continued
ELGL Collectives build community for our members of color while also doubling as a tool for recruitment for new members. Collective events are focused on building authentic and genuine connections in local government. Please RSVP to attend an event, and make sure you join the Collectives in our online community at Community.ELGL.org. Collectives Quarterly Meeting – March … Continued
A very special episode of GovLove. To mark the occasion of 500 episodes of a podcast about local government, the team looks back at some of their favorite moments of the podcast. Kirsten Wyatt and Kent Wyatt talked about the origins of ELGL and how the organization has grown (00:02:53). The GovLove Producers, Ben Kittelson … Continued
Today’s Morning Buzz is by Melissa Cantarero Weiss, Deputy City Administrator, for Wauwatosa, WI. Connect on LinkedIn and Twitter. What I’m Reading: Diana Gabaldon’s Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone What I’m Watching: Madam Secretary on Netflix What I’m Listening to: the podcast We Can Do Hard Things Let’s talk about feedback. Leading … Continued
For Immediate Release New Benchmarking Tool and Report Reveals Widespread Gender Gap in Local Government Leadership CivicPulse and ELGL release new interactive tools, report, and resources to track the gender diversity of leadership across the 21,000+ local governments in the United States March 16, 2022 — CivicPulse and ELGL released a first-of-its-kind gender diversity benchmarking … Continued
Sara Bronin Professor, Architecture Art + Planning Cornell University Twitter | LinkedIn | Bio Sara Bronin, Professor of Architecture and Planning at Cornell University, joined the podcast to discuss a recent article she wrote about the need for a zoning atlas. She talked about her time on the Planning Commission in the City of Hartford, … Continued
