Join ICMA Strategic Partner MissionSquare for a webinar covering best practices for local government financial wellness programs. While an increasing share of public agencies are offering financial wellness programs to their employees, interest in such programs is far higher. This is not surprising, considering significant financial worries stemming from market volatility and inflation. A recent survey by MissionSquare Research Institute sheds...

This webinar will help participants better understand the variety of programs available under the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act as well as the Inflation Reduction Act. The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA)–also known as the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law–authorizes $1.2 trillion in infrastructure spending across more than 380 federal programs. Of that, approximately $650 billion reauthorizes existing funding, an...

Join ICMA's Strategic Partner MissionSquare for a webinar covering their recent research on recruitment and retention in local government. MissionSquare Research Institute will share recent survey, case study, and focus group research and discuss key insights for local government workforce planning in 2023 and beyond. From evolving economic conditions to increased competition for skilled employees to optimizing compensation packages, local gov...

We all want to support our teammates, however, it can be difficult when that teammate is never there to help carry the load. We all struggle to ensure that our personal life does not impact our professional life, but it seems consistently more difficult to separate the two. Caregivers get calls to pick up a sick child; an employee that owns rental properties gets a call about a pipe bursting; the boss needs to have knee surgery and is out for...

Local government can be very bureaucratic in nature, especially in large organizations. How can we avoid getting bogged down in red tape and ensure that our organization is fast and flexible? One way to do this is to drive leadership down. By educating, empowering, and enabling employees to make decisions, leaders allow small and agile teams to lift their organization to the next level. Join us on October 20, for a 90-minute webinar where you...

Organizational culture is critical to a team’s success – 65% of employees stay in their job because they like their workplace culture. If your team doesn’t have the best culture, the return to the workplace is a great time to make some necessary improvements to start attracting and retaining the best talent. Join us on September 8, for a 90-minute webinar where you will learn how to make necessary improvements to start attrac...

There are five generations in the workforce today – from the Traditionalists born in the 1940s, to Gen Zers born after 2001. The changes in technology and society have been drastic, which plays a role in how work colleagues from different generations interact with each other. It is important to understand who you are and who your teammates are, in order to ensure that they have job satisfaction and are working productively as a team. Joi...

Applying an equity lens to program data, one of the most surprising realizations is that each and every program offered has an opportunity to be transformed, reimagined, and evolved to increase equity. Layering on that program data, program insights capture the knowledge and ideas of your organization providing a pathway to action. Although the equity goals of various organizations are different, they all share a vision for change, which is a...

Applying an equity lens to program data, one of the most surprising realizations is that each and every program offered has an opportunity to be transformed, reimagined, and evolved to increase equity. Layering on that program data, program insights capture the knowledge and ideas of your organization providing a pathway to action. Although the equity goals of various organizations are different, they all share a vision for change, which is a...

Politics and government go hand in hand, you cannot have a democratic election without political discussions on the current issues of the time. We all see these issues differently based on our viewpoints. Managers typically make decisions based on data and facts, while politicians might make decisions based on connections to constituent groups or ideological views. The differences in how administrators and policymakers interact are even more h...