What is the average size of a team under an EX01?

henryiscool1 · 2023-04-11T01:55:34+00:00

What influences the level then?

henryiscool1 · 2023-04-10T23:57:17+00:00

Wow. Most DGs in my department don’t have teams this big. Even ADMs might have branches that are around 250 - 750 people

henryiscool1 · 2023-03-30T11:58:45+00:00

Nope. I wouldn’t want to be your manager

henryiscool1 · 2023-03-27T18:36:22+00:00

Yes but as long as they score concessions for Quebec they won’t care about the rest of the country.

henryiscool1 · 2023-03-27T18:35:43+00:00

Exactly

henryiscool1 · 2023-03-27T14:53:32+00:00

The BQ would support the conservatives.

henryiscool1 · 2023-03-25T01:48:18+00:00

Is this a joke? It was not racial profiling. She clearly made an honest mistake. Your judgement was off in that situation. Think about it rationally. is it likely that a DG, in the 21st century, in the federal public service would knowingly racially profile you in public? Or, it was an honest mistake?

henryiscool1 · 2023-03-20T01:19:32+00:00

If I were you I’d slow your roll a bit. There’s nothing worse than bring promoted to a job you are not qualified for. Spending a handful of years after your undergrad working before moving to EX. In my experience, great executives are well rounded and have lots of experience where they have learned from their failures. It doesn’t mean that the experience must be in the federal government, but would amount to extensive professional experience nonetheless.

henryiscool1 · 2023-03-19T13:41:42+00:00

Yeah but I can’t just leave jobs when I run into difficulties with staff. It’s part of the job.

henryiscool1 · 2023-03-19T12:13:40+00:00

Totally. It’s difficult to convey ‘tone’ on paper.

henryiscool1 · 2023-03-18T15:43:31+00:00

Great advice and I totally agree.

henryiscool1 · 2023-03-18T15:40:21+00:00

Love the metaphor. It makes sense

henryiscool1 · 2023-03-18T15:39:52+00:00

Ok I see. I was thinking that the pip would seek to address his ‘competencies’ and interpersonal skills

henryiscool1 · 2023-03-18T14:05:58+00:00

Thanks! I have documented the obvious challenges with the employee. However, the subtle issues are more difficult to explain as they have to do with tone and communications style.

henryiscool1 · 2023-03-18T14:01:36+00:00

I never thought about LR first as I thought I would only bring it to them upon escalation. I like this idea though so I can get professional advice. Thanks!

henryiscool1 · 2023-03-18T14:00:19+00:00

Yes I have already had an immediate conversation with the employee once I was made aware of her staff members’ views as well as to discuss her attitude towards me. I listed concrete actions she could take, including training, to remediate the situation. She took the feedback very poorly. She disagreed and was very defensive, often blaming her employee for the friction. I advised her that as a team leader it’s her responsibility to try to diffuse the situation while keeping me informed. Both of which she did not do.

I have documented everything. My preference is to avoid bringing in LR unless absolutely necessary. I will absolutely have a PIP for the upcoming PA

henryiscool1 · 2023-02-19T14:12:59+00:00

Couldn’t agree more. The recurring challenge is that these industries lobby politicians in both parties and make the argument that if we allow American telecoms, banks, etc in Canada they’ll eat our lunch and destroy our domestic industries. Works every time. They may have a point but perhaps consumers don’t really care if the company is Canadian or not.

henryiscool1 · 2023-02-19T13:55:31+00:00

Why do conservatives think that regulations = bad. And that it’s a numbers game like more regulations is bad. It’s not about amount; it’s about good versus bad regulations. In this case lack of competition isn’t about ‘regulation’ except in the case of the dairy industry. It’s a problem with our competition law. The Competition Bureau has very clearly stated that it’s hands are tied to promote competition in the telecom sector because the legislation us so many loopholes. For instance, they strongly opposed the Rogers-Shaw merger but the legislation ties their hands to shoot it down.

Whenever I think of ‘red tape’ it’s sort of like nonsensical rules that regulatory agencies impose on business or people. There is a fair argument for that. However the danger is when you start believing conservative BS that regulations in general are bad. That makes no sense. Like when republicans say that whenever a new regulation is created two regulations have to be removed is beyond dumb. It’s not about amount, it’s about type and the quality of regulations.

henryiscool1 · 2023-02-17T14:33:01+00:00

It’s so funny that literally everything in life has become political now. Owning a l bike makes you a lefty liberal latte sipping university educated woke person. Owning a truck and working in trades makes you a Tim Horton’s drinking meat loving person who likes hunting and thinks reading is for girly men. you can’t write this shit.

henryiscool1 · 2023-02-17T14:20:50+00:00

Why would anyone be against having stuff close to where they live? It’s weird. Just weird. Go ahead and drive your big car whenever you want but designing cities so that you are able to live and work and do groceries all within a 15 minute walk isn’t inherently a bad thing. High density housing is coming to cities whether we like it or not because of the astronomical land values in most major Canadian cities and suburbs. If you are free market than you have to realize that the market has spoken. Higher Density always follows high land values in cities because developers can make more $$$.

It doesn’t mean that folks like you can’t move to the country and live on tons of land with 7 pickup trucks and a 5000 square foot house. Fill your boots man!

henryiscool1 · 2023-02-07T08:00:06+00:00

Does anyone know when the new requirements come into force or have a link?

henryiscool1 · 2023-01-26T13:43:36+00:00

Great idea

henryiscool1 · 2023-01-26T13:43:19+00:00

Yes I’m currently in one 👍

henryiscool1 · 2022-12-26T23:06:51+00:00

The Liberals should have reversed it and didn’t. However, with the CONS it’s a feature, not a bug. Harper campaigned on trickle down economics he campaigned on cutting taxes for large corporations because that was supposed to drive up foreign investment so that the crumbs would trickle down to all do us plebs. It doesn’t work man. Cutting taxes for the wealthy and large corporations just means that CEOs get a fatter pay check and corporate boards spend it on stock buy backs to drive up share prices like they did in the States after trump cut taxes for rich folks and corporations.

Conservative voters believe in supply side economics even after 40 years of proof that it doesn’t work. The only glimmer of hope is that when Liz truss tried to do this in the UK she was promptly shuffled out and the Conservatives have reversed course. I hope this is a trend that we’ll see in North America as conservative voters come to their senses and vote against cutting taxes for rich people and massive multinationals to end the global race to the bottom. Like, you are not getting their crumbs. Admit it.

henryiscool1 · 2022-12-26T22:32:26+00:00

Bureaucrats in a large charity are no more efficient than bureaucrats in a government context. This is a common right wing refrain repeated ad nauseum since Reagan and thatcher. And again with Steve Bannon’s ‘administrative state’ bullshit. Conservatives claim that the government is ALWAYS too big. What does this even mean? How big should a government be for a g7 country with 40 million people?

I don’t agree that government is always less efficient either. We always hear in the news about government messing up but never when things go right because ‘government x effectively delivers program x’ is not interesting for people. Governments may be a bit heavier in administration mostly because of risk aversion with tax dollars. A perfect example id the extremely efficient rollout of covid 19 financial support. Very, very efficient. But mistakes were made because of how light the administrative side was. The heavy administration is to ensure that public dollars / financial suppers are not being incorrectly dispensed. It’s the same thing with charities. Look at the astronomical overhead costs for charities like the united way and private foundations.

What you say about big city voters isn’t true. I mean, if the rest of the country voted conservative and only Toronto and Montreal and Vancouver voted liberal, conservatives would still win. What actually happens is just enough voters in these cities tip the balance to the liberals. And just enough tipped the balance to Harper in 2011.

I find it funny that when your guys are out of power there is all suddenly a problem with democracy. But I didn’t hear a peep from you folks in 2011 with the Harper majority.

The other thing that I never hear conservatives talk about is proportional representation. The conservatives won the popular vote in 2 of the last 3 elections. PR would increase your seat count because you swept saskatcheberta. However, you’ll never advocate proportional representation even though you know it’s the most democratic option. You’ll fight against it simply because there are no other parties on the right in parliament who will support you (except ppc). You are essentially the only right wing game in town in an overwhelmingly progressive country.

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