There’s something oddly comforting about walking into a CALPELRA conference ballroom and knowing that almost everyone in the room has likely been through it:  the 2 a.m. phone call, the “should we say something?” debate, the department head who’s burying their head in the sand, and the attorney who‘s convinced that silence is mandatory. Public sector HR doesn’t get to control when the next crisis hits, but we do get to decide how prepared we’ll be when it does. This year, I had the...

In early September, I went to Washington, DC for the Abundance Conference. It’s only in its second year, but the rooms were packed with...

Learning and development (L&D) efforts often begin with the best of intentions—fulfilling staff requests, responding to urgent needs, or...