by MRG | Oct 7, 2025 | Governance & Strategy
Are you going to the annual Municipal Managers Association of Northern California (MMANC) Conference this year? If so, we’d love to connect with you at the event. The MMANC Annual Conference is a yearly event where municipal leaders, administrators and managers from...
by Mary Egan | Sep 15, 2025 | Human Resources Services
This is Ask Mary, an advice column dedicated to helping public sector leaders address common issues and challenges with grace, humility and wit. In this column, MRG CEO and founding partner Mary Egan offers her unique perspective and wisdom honed over two decades of...
by Patty Francisco | Sep 15, 2025 | Human Resources Services
As part of the HR On-Demand suite of services offered by MRG, I routinely receive requests from HR Directors who will ask me to come to their agency to perform an organizational assessment. They’ll describe a very specific set of problems in their organization in...
by Shirley Concolino | Sep 15, 2025 | Human Resources Services, Leadership Development & Support
In the last eight years working with MRG, I’ve performed organizational assessments at cities across California, often focused on City Clerks’ offices. Recently I’ve noticed an alarming trend of what I’ll call “policy deserts”: policies and procedures are often...
by Mary Egan | Aug 26, 2025 | Leadership Development & Support
Welcome to Ask Mary, an advice column dedicated to helping public sector leaders address common issues and challenges with grace, humility and wit. In this column, MRG founding partner and CEO Mary Egan offers her unique perspective and wisdom honed over two decades...
by Lisa Sullivan | Aug 11, 2025 | Human Resources Services
Sometimes as HR professionals, the most challenging projects are the ones that feel personal. What’s more emotionally charged than assessing someone’s pay? No matter how excellent the study, or how practiced the HR professional doing the work, there’s always the...
by Mary Egan | Aug 4, 2025 | Leadership Development & Support
Welcome to Ask Mary, an advice column dedicated to helping public sector leaders address common issues and challenges with grace, humility and wit. In this column, MRG founding partner and CEO Mary Egan offers her unique perspective and wisdom honed over two decades...
by Mary Egan | Jul 11, 2025 | Leadership Development & Support
Originally published in the CAL-ICMA newsletter How to use experts to augment & support your team In times of rapid change, constrained resources, and rising public expectations, local government leaders increasingly turn to trusted advisors for support for...
by Rumi Portillo | Jul 10, 2025 | Coaching & Training, Human Resources Services
As a human resources consultant and personal coach, one of the most common requests I hear from managers is, “I have an employee who is underperforming in their role. How can I hold them accountable?” By the time I receive such a request, the relationship between the...
by Ashwini Kantak | Jul 10, 2025 | Coaching & Training, Human Resources Services, Leadership Development & Support, Uncategorized
Yes definitely! The desire for a highly collaborative environment can lead to chaos when there is a lack of clarity about roles and responsibilities. Public sector work is complex and requires collaboration across a multitude of internal and external stakeholders....
