Should you invest time and effort hiring interns? While you may be sold on the value of helping a promising college student gain real world experience - and hopefully getting some work done along...
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Tami Trout
Can You Motivate Your Employees? Yes…and No
Motivation is the desire to act to achieve a goal, behavior, or outcome. It’s one of the driving forces behind human actions. However, it’s not simple. Individuals often have many motives for...
Build a Strong Manufacturing Workforce: Six Things We Can Help You Do Today
Labor shortage? Workforce crisis? Call it what you will —manufacturers like you are struggling to find and retain workers. Since the beginning of the pandemic, older workers have left the workforce,...
Onboarding– Your Secret Weapon for Retention and Engagement
Why are 44 percent percent of manufacturing employees quitting within their first year on the job? Manufacturers who are finally able to get workers in the front door are leaving the backdoor wide...
How Manufacturers Can Create a Self-Motivating Environment to Engage & Retain Talent
Most manufacturers are familiar with the widening ‘skills gap.’ This is a multifaceted issue that includes Baby Boomer and Gen X generations retiring, lack of focused professional development and...
Workforce Opportunity Tax Credit
The Work Opportunity Tax Credit (WOTC) has been extended through 2025. This is an incentive for employers to broaden their job applicant pools and hire from certain groups of people who may need...
Prioritized PPP Loan Applications for Businesses with 20 or Fewer Employees
The Biden Administration announced that it is opening a special two-week period for businesses with less than 20 employees to apply for PPP assistance before the March 31 deadline. The SBA has...
Essential Leadership Behaviors To Nurture a Healthy Manufacturing Workplace
Communication challenges, differences in perspective, and variations of approach to achieve tasks is inevitable and natural. After all, we’re human and with humanity comes diversity and uniqueness....