Now is the time! The HR team at the local employer is struggling. When production is high, there is money for training, but there is not much time. When production is low, there is time for training, but not much money.
Category Archives: Workforce
Turn Your Hobby Into A Career
If you can find what you really like to do — a favorite hobby — and use it to solve a problem for someone else or add value to their lives, you have great potential for a new career. And it may be more true in a bad economy that it is in a good economy.
Four Keys to Development
We are in the workforce and career development business. If we don’t have our hand on the solution — which is the workforce — nobody else does either! Think about it! Be encouraged! And get busy rebuilding the dream!!!
Using Information in Career Planning
If you have ever heard the term ”TMI”, you will know what I mean when you begin a career exploration process. Boy, who thought of all these websites!! Sometimes too much information can be as bad as too little information.
The Departments of Education and Labor have joined up to create a new website: www.opportunity.gov offering “New Educational [...]
SERVE Others
Okay! We have already introduced you to the new, Entrepreneurial Workforce (eWorkforce) and suggested that the first great skill of an Entrepreneurial Worker is “problem-solving. It is time to look at the second great skill, which is “service.” The bottom line is that nobody is going to buy you or what you have to offer [...]
Problem-Solving Works!
You already know that Problem-Solving is one of the core values of the new Entrepreneurial Workforce (eWorkforce). But there are some simple, little things you probably didn’t know about problem-solving. When you learn these things, you can use them yourself … and you can teach them to others too.
FIRST … “All work is a process.”
That’s right. [...]
The New eWorkforce
We plan to do a series of blog entries discussing the new “eWorkforce”. It is by far one of the most important trends impacting workforce and career development today. And it very well could prove to be the most effective response to the many economic issues we have been hearing so much about lately. Anyway, [...]
Surprise! Surprise!
What do most Americans want from their work? A Gallup Poll provides some answers, and there are a few surprises in the mix! Below are the top five responses:
Benefits (including health insurance).
Interesting work.
Job security.
Opportunities to learn and grow.
Having a week or more of paid vacation.
Let’s analyze the responses and see what we can learn. First, [...]
Biker Thoughts
Many of you know, I love to ride motorcycles. When I am not doing workforce and career development, I do a lot of Christian ministry with bikers around the country. Bikers share an interesting outlook on life that would serve workforce and career development professionals well to adopt also. It goes like this …
THE JOURNEY [...]
The Political Season
Here’s a little poll for you. We want to try to have a little fun during this “political season” without being too political ourselves. We realize that you do not know who the next President will be yet, but based on who you think it will be and what you expect from him, answer the [...]
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