Team Chemistry
Recent posts have covered finding new employees and how the supervisors and new hires can make the “adoption” work smoothly. Now we get to the […]
Gear Talk With Chuck
Learning the Ropes
Ever wonder about the origin of common phrases? As the son of a sailor, I have always enjoyed maritime history and nautical fiction, although some […]
Fitting In
Despite my horror stories about new hires gone badly, there are ways to welcome new team members and help them become solid contributors quickly. I […]
Assimilation
One of the reasons I strongly advocate for “promoting from within” is that many recruitments fail. Real life is not Star Trek, your company is not […]
Finding Good Candidates
Once you commit to developing the talented team members your business needs, how do you decide who to invest in? The “washout rate” at professional […]
Ladder Shopping
You will be relieved to hear that I am temporarily out of youth soccer analogies. I could switch to “American” football analogies but am mourning […]
Stay in Your Lane?
It was a major moment in my youth soccer coaching career when the kids finally understood the concept of “staying in your lane.” Mob ball […]
Basic Training
So how do you go about becoming the confident and versatile professional these trying times require? I remember getting all the standard “work hard, study […]
Are You Experienced?
Few of you are old enough to know why today’s title resonates with us old timers. Back in 1969, long before the kneeling protests, Jimi […]
Help Wanted
Northwest Pennsylvania’s Oil Region has a long history in manufacturing. Many of the widgets that made oil extraction and processing possible were invented and first […]