{"id":6435,"date":"2025-09-18T11:10:49","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T15:10:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/?p=6435"},"modified":"2026-04-13T16:08:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T20:08:16","slug":"life-lessons-for-staffers-at-the-start-of-a-new-sitting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/2025\/life-lessons-for-staffers-at-the-start-of-a-new-sitting\/","title":{"rendered":"Life Lessons for Staffers at the Start of a New Sitting"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Life Lessons for Staffers at the Start of a New Sitting\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p class=\"my-2 [&amp;+p]:mt-4 [&amp;_strong:has(+br)]:inline-block [&amp;_strong:has(+br)]:pb-2\">The&nbsp;<em>Hill Times<\/em> article \u201cLife lessons for staffers at the start of a new sitting\u201d by <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/people\/marci-surkes\/\">Marci Surkes<\/a>, Program Fellow for the MPM program, offers practical advice and meaningful insights for staffers facing a new parliamentary sitting. Drawing on her deep experience from fifteen years on Parliament Hill and her mentorship role in political management, Surkes provides timely reflections on integrity, resilience, and leadership as core traits for success in high-pressure, uncertain environments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"my-2 [&amp;+p]:mt-4 [&amp;_strong:has(+br)]:inline-block [&amp;_strong:has(+br)]:pb-2\">Readers will find relatable guidance and candid lessons that speak to both new and seasoned staffers.&nbsp; Do not miss the full article for Surkes\u2019 unique perspective on thriving in Canada\u2019s political sphere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read the full article at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hilltimes.com\/story\/2025\/09\/17\/life-lessons-for-staffers-at-the-start-of-a-new-sitting\/473205\/\">The Hill Times &#8211; Life Lessons for Staffers at the Start of a New Sitting<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The&nbsp;Hill Times article \u201cLife lessons for staffers at the start of a new sitting\u201d by Marci Surkes, Program Fellow for the MPM program, offers practical advice and meaningful insights for staffers facing a new parliamentary sitting. Drawing on her deep experience from fifteen years on Parliament Hill and her mentorship role in political management, Surkes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6438,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6435"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6440,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6435\/revisions\/6440"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}