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Navigating Rocky Labor/Management Terrain

Today's Morning Buzz is by Kylie Bayer, HR Manager (LinkedIn, Twitter) with the City of McMinnville. What I'm Watching: Chef's Table What I'm Listening To: Whatever Alexa plays when I say "Alexa, play pop music." What I'm Reading: A cookbook called Salad Days, it makes me want to eat more veggies. In the final interview...

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...

Slow Down

What I’m doing: Flying out of frigid Wisconsin and heading for warmer weather What I’m watching: The Wire What I’m listening to: Slow Burn, a Slate Podcast As a young professional almost two years into my career I often get questions like; where do you want to be in 5 years? Do you want to...

Hiring Decisions Gone Wrong

Morning Buzz with Jordan Rae Hillman, Deputy Director of City Planning for the city of Jackson, Mississippi I've made some great hiring decisions over the years. Those individuals are key pieces of my career puzzle. I've also made some terrible hiring decisions. Those decisions serve as an important reminder each time I make a hiring decision. A...

New Year, New You: Goals for 2019! #ELGLResolutions

It's January 1! In this post, I look forward to a new year filled with opportunities and excitement. The biggest question, I am sure many of you have been asked today is, what is your New Year’s Resolution?!?! For me, a few come to mind: When I have to write a date, I have a...

#MondayMotivation

Right Now with Nick Smith (Linkedin/Twitter) What I'm watching: YouTube videos about completing the side missions in Red Dead Redemption 2 (I'm thisclose to being 100% done, y'all). What I'm listening to: The Hold Steady - Stay Positive Good morning, everyone! I was just reading Kendra Davis' recent Morning Buzz trying to figure out which 500-700...

The Other Side of the Counter: For Our Own Comfort, or For Those We Serve?

Morning Buzz with Jordan Rae Hillman, Deputy Director of City Planning for the city of Jackson, Mississippi I went to the Post Office earlier this week to ship a package, and while I was waiting in line I noticed a lady with a pile of envelopes and a stack of form letters filling out the...

Go for the Joke!

What I’m Reading: Spider-Man: Enter the Spider-Verse (2018) #1 What I’m Watching: The Ballad of Buster Scruggs What I’m Listening to: When A Cowboy Trades His Spurs For Wings- Willie Watson and Tim Blake Nelson Go for the Joke! Morning Buzz with Douglas Shontz In the local government profession, we deal with important issues. These...

Appreciation With a Traeger Bow

Morning Buzz by Kirsten Wyatt What I'm Reading: Pachinko by Min Jin Lee What I'm Watching: Rewatching West Wing on Netflix What I'm Listening To: The Daily Podcast by New York Times Over the years, I've met people who claim to be "so busy" and can't find any time to welcome someone new to the...

Four Lessons from Rebranding West Allis

Jenny Kosek, Communications Strategist for the City of West Allis, WI is taking over the Morning Buzz today to share her stories of rebranding. My city, West Allis, WI, just went through a rebranding process that was a long time in the making. In 2017, our Common Council adopted a Five Year Strategic Plan with...

The One Thing You Need To Change …Follow-up

Right Now with Mario Smith (LinkedIn/Twitter) What I’m reading: The tragic aftermath of a shooting at the Borderline country and western bar in Thousand Oaks, southern California. What I’m watching: The tragic aftermath of a shooting at the Borderline country and western bar in Thousand Oaks, southern California. What I’m listening to: The tragic aftermath of...

Combating the Opioid Epidemic

Todays Morning Buzz is brought to you by Brian Southey (Linkedin/Twitter) What I’m Watching – Red Sox Post Season Baseball! This year has been a blast as a Red Sox fan. I have also been enjoying the Netflix series The Haunting of Hill House. Great series to watch in October. What I’m Reading – Boom...

Obsolete and Onerous Regulations

Today’s Morning Buzz is brought to you by the unnecessarily burdensome policies and procedures that exist in local government. Right Now with Daniel Soto (LinkedIn/Twitter) What I’m Listening to – Coast Modern - Now I'm Cool What I’m Watching – Season 3 of Riverdale debuted this week. I haven't seen it yet, but it's on my watch...

Kavanaugh-Ford Hearings, and Your Local Gov Workplace

Morning Buzz by Kirsten Wyatt What I'm Reading: Trump Engaged in Suspect Tax Schemes as He Reaped Riches From His Father What I'm Listening To: Mamma Mia! Soundtrack (Prepping for a 9-year-old's birthday party...) What I'm Watching: Murphy Brown This Morning Buzz has two parts - the first is about office considerations while watching/ reading/ discussing...

Hashtags & Topics

We use a lot of #Hashtags, host many signature events, and discuss a diverse array of topics. Below is a running list of what some of the lingo means. Hashtags: #13Percent - A hashtag used to discuss diversity topics within local government. Only 13% of City Managers and City Administrator roles are held by women....

Be Who You Needed When You Were Younger

Morning Buzz by Kirsten Wyatt What I Just Finished Reading: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (Book) What I'm Now Watching: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (Netflix) What I'm Listening To: Slow Burn (Clinton Years) Every morning when I drop off my kids at school I remind them to "work...

Internal Customer Service - Are We Not All Community Members?

If you asked your employees to rate the service they receive from other divisions and departments, would you get a thumbs up or thumbs down? During a budget hearing presentation one of my coworkers stated one of her division’s biggest challenges is cross-departmental customer service. This statement struck me as something we don’t discuss enough....

#CityHallSelfieDay It's Not Just Picture Day

Morning Buzz by Zach Navin What i’m doing - Planning a hiking trip to Southern Utah What I’m listening to – Slow Burn What I’m watching – It’s still summer, I try to avoid the indoors What I’m reading – Simple, Not Easy - Terrence Roberts (H/T @lizzykayAR) Now that you've tackled #CityHallSelfie Day let’s...

What's Civic Tech? National Day of Civic Hacking 2018

Today's Morning Buzz is all about #NationalDayOfCivicHacking. Right Now with Daniel A. Soto (LinkedIn/Twitter) What I’m Listening to – Khalid - 8TEEN What I’m Watching – I recently watched Donnie Darko. It was weird What I Did this Weekend – I passed out on a sidewalk in the Mission District (I had a really bad, once-a-year-type migraine). What's...

Government News From Around The World

Right Now with Nick Smith (Linkedin/Twitter) What I'm reading: Football Statistics Blogs — it's less than a month now until football season, and I can. not. wait. What I'm listening to: Say Anything's ...Is A Real Boy — an excellent standby. What I'm watching: SBNation just started a series called "Rewinder" where they talk about how...