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ELGL19 Session: Creating a High Culture IQ to Engage, Motivate and Retain Top Talent

Breakout: Creating a High Culture IQ to Engage, Motivate and Retain Top Talent How do you grow, invest-in and ultimately retain your high performers? How do you recognize a high performer in your organization? What characteristics might you see in a high performer? High performers are those employees that stand out in any organization as highly...

#ELGLTakeoverTuesday: City of Baytown, Texas

Howdy and Happy New Year from Baytown, Texas! Your tour guides on this Texas-sized takeover are Natasha Barrett, Tara Barton, Jenna Harte, and Sabrina Martin from the City of Baytown’s Public Affairs, Parks and Recreation, Library, and Tourism departments respectively. We can’t wait to show you around town on Tuesday, January 15. You may remember...

Keep Talking About Diversity!

What I am watching: Old seasons of the Deadliest Catch What I am listening to: Whatever is on the radio! What I am reading: In between books at the moment. First off, a HUGE THANK YOU to Ashley Wooten, Logan Masenthin and Bridget Kozlowski for writing articles about their respective experiences. It is on all...

ELGL19 Session: Innovation from Coast to Coast Pt. 1

Breakout: Innovation from Coast to Coast - Part 1 All across the country local governments are working to make services better for their residents by trying out new ideas and new approaches to problems that many communities face. In this session we want to take a look at how three different organizations are approaching problem...

Parenthood as Professional Development

In this series, guest columnists respond to one of three topics selected by ELGL Co-Founder Kent Wyatt. This week, Ryan Adams writes about balancing being a father to two young boys and advancing his professional career. Hear more from Ryan on this GovLove podcast, Dad Talk, Balancing Diapers and Budgets. Sign up to be a guest columnist for...

New Member Profile: Shannon Delaney

Shannon Delaney Design Strategist for the City of Durham LinkedIn Favorite song from 2018: Beyond by Leon Bridges Favorite book from 2018: Untethered Soul by Michael Singer Proudest work accomplishment in 2018: Finished grad school and started working for the City of Durham People who most positively impacted you in 2018: ma and da New Year's Resolution(s)...

Reading List for Undergrad Students Starting Local Gov Internships

We asked, and you delivered... an ELGL member and politics professor who teaches an internship course asked for feedback on the books he should include on the syllabus. Here's what you recommended: The Federalist Papers by Hamilton, Madison & Jay The World is Flat by Thomas Friedman Triumph of the City by Edward Glaeser We...

The Ugly Truth: Microaggressions in the Workplace

What I'm Watching: You What I'm Reading: Nothing at the moment... What I'm Listening to: The Internet The other day my Soror (Sorority Sister for those unfamiliar with D9 lingo) text me, and asked me to share with her the most disturbing microaggression I have ever experienced. She experienced an incident that made her uncomfortable,...

Podcast: Why Local Governments Need PIOs with Chris Floore

Chris Floore Assistant to the County Manager for Public Affairs Macon-Bibb County, GA LinkedIn | Twitter Communications and media relations. Chris Floore, the Assistant to the County Manager for Public Affairs in Macon-Bibb County, Georgia, joined the podcast to talk about his work and building relationships with the media. Chris discussed the importance of the public...

Spring 2019 #ELGLInspire Events

Our calendar is set for the Spring 2019 #ELGLInspire events! If you're in the area, stop by one of these campuses to get some local government inspiration from local leaders and students: Cleveland State University - March 1 Penn State University - March 15 Texas State University - April 2 University of Illinois at Chicago...

New Member Profile: Brandon Chapman

Brandon Chapman Director of Marketing and Communications, Washington State University & Pullman City Councilor Twitter | LinkedIn Favorite song from 2018: Not sure. I love anything with sick Latinx beats. My 11 year old and I had a routine of listening to X by J. Balvin on the way to the ballpark every day, so...

Decisions Decisions...

By Dan Weinheimer, Routt County, Colorado I doubt my organization is much different from many of yours but we have a problem -we cannot make decisions. This lack of decisiveness is a problem to be sure, unless you have a problem with that and we can talk more about it at our next meeting… or...

Where is Your Evidence for That?

This guest blog is by ELGL member Josie Gatti Schafer, the Director and Senior Research Associate at the Center for Public Affairs Research at the University of Nebraska - Omaha. She's conducting research on evidence-based management, and she's sharing her research process and methods with ELGL. Last May, I joined the ELGL crowd at their...

Coming Out, Again and Again

ELGL is the proud host of CivicPride content. CivicPRIDE is a social & networking organization devoted to promoting LGBTQ leaders in local government. In this entry, Logan Masenthin, Unified Government of Wyandotte County, reflects on the lifelong journey of coming out. What does it mean to “come out”? Before realizing I identify as bisexual, I never...

The First Step to Winning is Learning How to Fail

Right Now w/ Joey Garcia (LinkedIn / Twitter) What I’m Reading - The Food Lab: Better Home Cooking Through Science, Becoming, and The Death and Life of Great American Cities. (I know! Three books at once?! Christmas was good to me!) What I’m Watching - Star Trek: Enterprise What I’m blanching - Green beans! This post was...

Webinar: Understanding Implicit Bias

Webinar: Understanding Implicit Bias Wednesday, January 23, 2019 Noon PST FREE! RSVP/Registration required Join ELGL and CPS HR Consulting for a free webinar on understanding implicit bias. Use this webinar to train your new employees, or refresh you staff's understanding of attitudes or stereotypes that affect your local government's performance in an unconscious manner. Webinars are...

Human Resources Toolbox

Each month, ELGL features a "deep dive" into a local government topic with the help of our partners. These opportunities build out our content, webinar, podcast, and graphic libraries to provide our members with helpful and meaningful information that will improve their local governments. In January 2019, we're building out your HR Toolbox with CPS...

Attract, Develop & Retain Local Government Talent

This guest blog is by Robert J. Lavigna with CPS HR Consulting and is reprinted with permission from Governing Magazine. It's become an article of faith in government that improving employee engagement will drive improved performance and service. That's not surprising, given the documented successes of private-sector firms in engaging their workers and reaping the financial...

The Return to Work After Parental Leave

I know many of our ELGL’ers are parents and have been for some time now. But here I am, figuring it out as I go — and asking all of us to advocate for the future of working parents in local government. My son was born 3.5 weeks early at the end of this past...

On the Road With ELGL

ELGL is participating in or hosting 15 events between January and May - take a look at our busy calendar and connect with the ELGL reps who will be in attendance at these great local government learning opportunities! Jan 30 - City Management Association of Oklahoma Conference - Kirsten Feb 6 - Colorado City and County...