A simple 5-step process to improve your time management
When I talk with public servants, one of their biggest struggles to get things done is lack of time. This blog gives you an easy 5-step process to improve your time management.
In this section you will find the blogs related to leadership and public administration. The issues that are necessary on a day-to-day basis. For example, how to improve communication between teams, how to manage teams or how to improve the use of your time. If you can’t find something contact me, I love to receive suggestions for new topics.
The one thing a Minister needs in a public servant
What a minister wants and what a minister needs won’t always be the same. But, as a former minister and vice president, if there was only one thing I could ask from a civil servant it would be their frank and fearless advice. This blog is my honest (frank and fearless) advice to a civil servant.
Three ways to engage your team towards achieving results
Staff meetings can play a key role in getting things done. They are a space for coordination, conflict resolution and engagement. In this blog I share three ways to use staff meetings to engage your teams towards results.
How to pass beyond being right
To get things done in the public sector requires a high level of coordination. Disagreements between teams hinder implementation. This is a short story about how to manage those tensions.
How to present to a decision maker
You need an effective presentation if you want your ideas to move forward. The main focus of this blog is how to prepare a presentation to grab a decision maker’s attention. I’ll share what I learned from presenting to the President, seeing other ministers do it and from my own expectations of what I was looking for as a minister
Three productivity hacks to boost 2021
After 2020 you’ve earned your juggler badge. As civil servants, we are constantly putting out fires. Everything needs to be done yesterday! In this article, I share three tricks to increase your productivity and regain your motivation.
Politics: the answer to the question everybody asks
This blog is a short answer to the question people ask me the most; “What was it like to be a Minister?” This is my first personal reflection of what it meant for me. I talk briefly about the good, the bad, the ugly and the hope.
