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2019 | Managing Organizational Change, Skills Gap Solutions

3 Critical Needs for Closing your Skills Gap

If you’re looking at a skills shortage you might be looking in the wrong place. Often the real problem in staff performance is an overdue management change. Before you launch into yet another mentoring program, succession planning exercise, or recruiting new team...
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2019 | MultiGenerational Workforce, Skills Gap Solutions

How UpSkill Houston Uses Video to Recruit Its Future Workforce

Employers in many industries today are anxious to know where their future workers are coming from. This is a particular problem in less “sexy” traditional industries, like construction, manufacturing and energy. Smart leaders continue to build relationships with...
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2018 | Skills Gap Solutions

Four Innovative Solutions for Critical Skill Shortages

Are you anxious to find new sources of talent to sustain and grow your business? Frustrated with traditional methods of finding and recruiting new hires? Here are four innovative approaches I’ve learned from my ongoing research on solutions for critical skill...
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2018 | Skills Gap Solutions

Chamber Solutions: Being Sexier Won’t Build Tomorrow’s Workforce

How can chambers of commerce help their members thrive in an era of critical skill shortages? Here are four practical lessons I shared in keynote talks to big state chamber meetings in Pennsylvania and North Carolina. These insights come from dozens of interviews with...
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2018 | Lost Knowledge, Skills Gap Solutions

How to Improve Knowledge Transfer: 3 Mentoring Tactics That Matter Most

Did you ever have a bad professor in college? Were you confused or annoyed at this experience? When you went to school you learned that just because someone is an “expert” in something doesn’t mean they can teach it. (They’re sometimes called professors!) But we...
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2018 | Skills Gap Solutions

Lessons from a Broken Leg: How Stories Help Close the Skills Gap

Can you imagine a medical crisis where you can’t communicate with the people who can help you most? That’s what happened when our three-year old daughter broke her leg while on a family vacation in the Dominican Republic. We don’t speak Spanish and no interpreter was...
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3 Critical Needs for Closing your Skills Gap

How UpSkill Houston Uses Video to Recruit Its Future Workforce

Four Innovative Solutions for Critical Skill Shortages

Chamber Solutions: Being Sexier Won’t Build Tomorrow’s Workforce

How to Improve Knowledge Transfer: 3 Mentoring Tactics That Matter Most

Lessons from a Broken Leg: How Stories Help Close the Skills Gap

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