"You must do the thing you think you cannot do." - Eleanor Roosevelt By Julie Underwood, Assistant City Manager - Daly City, CA By now, many of you know that there hasn’t been many of us in the #13percent club . And I’m making an educated guess that this number is even smaller for female [...]
By Megan Roach, Marketing & Sustainability Manager - Beverly Hills, CA While pursuing my Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science at Chapman University, I applied for a graduate level internship with the City Manager’s Office for the City of Laguna Niguel. I drove to the interview thinking the internship would either define my career path [...]
"Let’s stop talking about a piecemeal public policy approach to a problem best addressed by a fully stocked policy toolkit." By Ayanna Pressley, At-Large Member, Boston City Council; Beth Monaghan, CEO, InkHouse PR; and Jesse Mermell, Executive Director, Alliance for Business Leadership Right policies needed to support [...]
That’s a lot of time-sucking meetings and emails. By Kristen Bellstrom No man—or woman—is an island at the office. Indeed, new research from a trio of management experts finds that over the past 20 years, the amount of time employees are spending on collaborative tasks has surged by roughly 50%. And who is shouldering the [...]
Why we need many more voices in the civic innovation debate By Dr. Jonathan Reichental, Chief Information Officer, City of Palo Alto “In the game of life, less diversity means fewer options for change. Wild or domesticated, panda or pea, adaptation is the requirement for survival.” – Cary Fowler As a technology leader in Silicon [...]
By Zach Perron, Lieutenant - Palo Alto, CA Police Department I think it’s time to rethink the way that police agencies attempt to recruit new police officers. Police departments across the country are having tremendous difficulty filling vacancies. As a result, many agencies are “working short,” with fewer officers on the books than are authorized, [...]
By League of Women in Government Editor Happy Almost New Year!! It's been a busy year for the League, not limited to its creation earlier in 2015. 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 is [...]
New mothers are often not ready to just pick up where they left off at work. Their employers need to know and respond to this. By Elaine Davidson, WorkingMother.com The weeks leading up to the end of maternity leave and the first weeks back at work are undoubtedly the most difficult for many working mothers. Organizations—and [...]
By Dave Smith, Chief Product Officer, Payscale Managers know that engaged employees are more effective. But despite the vast amount of employee engagement research out there, very little of it focuses on a person’s primary reason for employment in the first place: getting paid. PayScale, the compensation software company where I work, surveyed 71,000 employees [...]
ICMA Works to Advance Women in the Profession Reprinted from ICMA.org Photo: Women Leading Government - TX Chapter In September 2012, ICMA President-elect Bonnie Svrcek established a Task Force on Women in the Profession to evaluate the barriers facing women in the local government profession and to develop strategies to remove the barriers for those [...]