Mammas Should Tell Their Babies to Grow Up to Be Plumbers
- EDUCATION, Life, Outlook & Trends, Workforce & Professional Development
- August 22, 2019
By Mark Drury, Shapiro & Duncan The current climate has brought innumerable departures from what ‘regular’ life looked like before. At Shapiro & Duncan, we’ve met these challenges with a proactive approach. This has been a crucial element enabling us to ‘keep our eye on the ball.” First Things First – Throw Out the Old
READ MOREBy Dom Tolli, vice president of product development, American Red Cross Given the current pandemic, it’s easy to postpone all but non-essential training; however, there are safe ways to train your employees while staying healthy. In the best of times, industrial workplaces can get sidelined by weather events that impact delivery and employee schedules, new
READ MOREBy Mark A. Cobb, The Cobb Law Group Since the Shelter-in-Place Orders began several weeks ago, the business landscape has been significantly altered. There are so many sources purporting to know the future, however, that taking in this information is akin to drinking from a firehose. It is just too much! As with all disasters,
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By: Eva Sage-Gavin, Sr. Managing Director, Accenture Imagine we’re sitting in your office, talking, leader to leader. I ask you if you can identify your company’s employee “supergroup.” Would you be able to, broadly? Would you know what I was asking? If so, you’re in a select group of C-suite leaders. Many leaders I speak
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By Mary Klett, ASA Communications Team We’ve heard the dire statistics, and maybe even gotten frustrated ourselves when searching for a good candidate to replace a valued employee. More than 82% of manufacturers report that they have a moderate to severe shortage of skilled workers. Nevertheless, two out of three parents say that a skilled
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By Stacey Holsinger, Jennifer Hottle, Mary Beth Kingsley, and Sandy Palmerton As societies become more inclusive, women are transitioning from scoring positions to slugger status and their stats are rising. Like baseball, there is no crying in construction. Similarly, the construction industry requires 100% team participation. Each department plays a critical role in helping the
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