2023
- Friday Question (FQ): How do you answer a question marking more than one element?
- Friday Question (FQ): Why would my boss not approve an assignment?
- Friday Question (FQ): Can a PM-06 report to an EC-07?
2022
- An unusual type of interview
- My HR Guide: Detailed answers to a Q&A session at Health Canada
- WFH vs. RTW: Links to the 9 posts
- WFH vs. RTW, part 9: It’s showtime!
- WFH vs. RTW, part 8: A rare Call to Action
- WFH vs. RTW, part 7: No black swans required
- WFH vs. RTW, part 6: If management is left to their own devices
- WFH vs. RTW, part 5: If an employee falls in an empty office, does anyone hear it?
- WFH vs. RTW, part 4: It’s not about Subway
- WFH vs. RTW, part 3: The research (mostly) shows…
- WFH vs. RTW, part 2: A baseline year…
- WFH vs. RTW, part 1: Something to talk about
- Great practice from PHAC on HR notices
2021
- Demonstrating merit, non-advertised appointments, and frustration as a manager
- Is work-from-home the new government normal?
2020
- Articles I Like: 21 HR Jobs of the Future
- Why I hate “inventories” in Government of Canada HR
- Articles I Like: Five Changes Facing Public Employees When They Return to the Office – If They Do
- Lynda.com: PowerPoint 2013 Specialist – Lesson 03: Working with slides
- Lynda.com: PowerPoint 2013 Specialist – Lesson 02: Working with presentations
- Articles I Like: The Best Mentors Ask These 8 Questions
- Lynda.com: PowerPoint 2013 Specialist – Introduction + Lesson 01: Navigating Powerpoint
- OPL resources: Lynda.com
- OPL resources: Language tools while working from home
- OPL resources: Research tools while working from home
- Government working-from-home in the time of pandemics
2019
2018
2017
- The Phoenix audit we could have had – Part 3
- The Phoenix audit we could have had – Part 2
- The Phoenix audit we could have had – Part 1
- A disappointing audit of the Phoenix problems
- My cold, crass heart and Phoenix victims
- Deconstructing the disaster that is Phoenix
- French update: Standard conjugation, the hypothese, and pronoun replacement (#2017-009)
- French update: Using DuoLingo (#2017-007)
- French update: Screwing up the conditional (#2017-006)
- French update: Understanding the two exams (#2017-005)
- French update: Training for my exams (#2017-003)
- French update: Structure for my written review (#2017-002)
- French update: The new plan (#2017-001)
2016
- Song v. Deputy Minister National Defence
- HR and switching classifications
- Managing inside/outside a cycle
- Disruption deja vu in government
- Loyalty and duty…
- My experiences learning French: Part 6 – Slow descent into uselessness
- HR, crazy trains and the PSLREB
- Articles I Like: The first rule of fraud – blame the auditors?
2015
- My experiences learning French: Part 5 – Use it or lose it
- My experiences learning French: Part 4 – My B level test
- My experiences learning French: Part 3 – Return to Asticou
- My experiences learning French: Part 2 – My first tutor
- My experiences learning French: Part 1 – Intro to Asticou
- Because that’s the job
- An uneasy relationship with politics
- Articles I Like: US State Department culture and the need to change
- Articles I Like: Universities paying lobbyists
- Articles I Like: Performance-based funding and education
2013
- Two cultures separated by a common language
- Articles I Like: When democracy starts looking weird
- Articles I Like: Muzzling government scientists
- CIDA, DFAIT and what’s on the DMs’ minds…
- A dark blue suit with Birkenstocks