Celebrate Women's HERstory Month through @SheLeadsGov on Twitter and #SheLeadsGov on all Social Media Platforms By LWG Editor Women make up over 50 percent of state and local government employees. Help us celebrate these AMAZING women during March -- Women's HERstory Month by highlighting women leaders in your organization. How? Submit a short video [...]
Today's TedTalk: Dr. Marianne Cooper on The Power of Us - How We Stop Sexual Harassment To stop sexual harassment, we must understand why it happens. In her TedX talk, Stanford University sociologist Marianne Cooper shares the research with us about the root causes of sexual harassment. And then, with her [...]
GovHR USA's Heidi Voorhees on the Top 10 Interview Blunders - (They are ALL Fixable) By Heidi Voorhees, President, GovHR USA I’ve had the opportunity to observe at least 1,000 interviews in my career as an executive recruiter. I find it very distressing when I see a qualified candidate not get a job due to an [...]
Career Corner – Resume Development Part II By Jenn Reichelt, Associate, The Novak Consulting Group Welcome back to Career Corner! In this second of a two-part article, we’re focusing on resume development. As a reminder, your resume is your opportunity to make a good first impression. It should have a clean and easy to read [...]
Career Corner – Resume Development Part I By Jenn Reichelt, Associate, The Novak Consulting Group The ushering in of a new year always brings a wave of resolutions. One of the most common (according to the interwebs) is finding a new job. However, many resolutions fail or fall off our radar once March rolls around. [...]
Who is YOUR Mentor? What Have You Learned? By LWG Editor: Who doesn't love Dilbert? Most of us will get a chuckle out of the Dilbert comic strip about mentoring. But, this week, the League is wrapping up Mentoring Month sharing INSPIRING mentorship stories and tidbits! Included in today's post are mentoring moments from ICMA [...]
The Important Breakthroughs of the #MeToo Movement By Valerie Martinelli, MPA – Leadership, Life, & Career Coach/ HR & Management Consultant Sexual harassment has become one of the most prevalent workplace and HR topics in recent weeks. In response to that, there have been surveys that suggest exactly how bad sexual harassment in the workplace [...]
Who Benefits from Coaching? EVERYONE! We need YOU! The League has partnered with ICMA to assist with recruiting more female coaches for the ICMA 1-1 Coaching Program. To that end, we are working to recruit 100 female coaches in 100 days! Why? Because coaching offers value for people at any stage in their careers by [...]
The League's Top 10 Articles of 2017! By Pamela Antil, President, League of Women in Government It’s been another busy year for the League of Women in Government. We’ve heard you loud and clear that having a spot where local government women AND men can visit to read content about advancing women in government [...]
Happy New Year from the League of Women in Government! 2018 is going to be a GREAT year! And we want YOU to be a part of it! Want to get involved? Help us plan an event or professional development opportunity in your city/region? Write and article for the website or newsletter? Start the new [...]