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. [...]
Today's Infographic: The Most Common Forms of Workplace Sexual Harassment Source: KnowtheLine.com
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 [...]
Guest Writer Karen Daly on Reaching the Gender Balance Plateau in 2017: We have more work to do! By Karen Daly, ICMA Mountain Plains Regional Director First, you have to know that I fan-girl of Sheryl Sandberg. Next, you should know that she continues to support amazing work on gender balance in the workforce. LeanIn.org [...]
Why Sharing YOUR #MeToo and #IWillSpeakUp Stories is Important in #LocalGov Colleagues: Over the last month, millions of women have been sharing their stories of sexual discrimination, harassment and assault online using #MeToo in response to complaints about a growing list of famous men in the news. Last month movie producer Harvey Weinstein dominated the news. This week [...]
Today is #GivingTuesday - a global day of giving fueled by the power of social media and collaboration. I hope you will join me and kick off your holiday charitable giving by donating to the League of Women in Government. Why Give to the League? Over 50 percent of employees in local and state government [...]