Skills Development

NFP chairman and CEO Doug Hammond says it becomes more challenging to make sure all of his employees are engaged and feel like an important part of the organization as the company grows.

When employees are concerned about their personal problems, they're not as productive. Gas South CEO Kevin Greiner is using financial literacy classes to help eliminate the disruption.

Training and reskilling an organization’s workforce to operate new solutions can be extremely challenging. Here's how some CEOs are handling it.

A multi-variate study sheds light on a vexing nationwide problem

Human capital has a value about 2.3 times that of physical capital; yet, most companies maintain their equipment better than their people.

How to engage both new entrants and existing employees in the digitization challenge.

CEOs discuss the value of hiring apprentices.

Three companies partnered with the Manufacturing Institute on an “Employer’s Playbook for Building an Apprenticeship Program.” An excerpt follows.

CEOs, boards and teams are discussing how to deal with the skills gap that has made it so difficult for companies to fill available jobs, increase often-stalled productivity, navigate change, and fuel the disruptive activity that is essential for survival in this economy.

President Trump recently signed an executive order to promote apprenticeship programs as a way to help young people find jobs, and to fill the skills gap in industries like manufacturing.