Gear Up for July 2021! WA State Offers You Grant Funding For Employee Training
Breaking News! Now is the time to start planning for your future employee development programming. Funds are becoming available to offset your company training costs through the Job Skills Program (JSP) matching grant. The funds are for companies who need customized training and development for their workers and administered through your local community and technical…
Read MoreThe ROI of Resilient Employees
Why is Resilience Training needed now more than ever? Today more than any other time in history, we are dealing with the unknown. The norms we counted on to make our lives predictable and within our control, have been challenged. This places our human drive to survive on alert! Our brains are designed to see…
Read MoreFunding Support for Companies with Foreign Competition
Little Known Federal Funding for Producing Companies Everyone knows that, for all its benefits, trade brings with it, low cost imports. Domestic companies, may then find themselves facing severe price competition. However, few know that for decades the Federal Government has offered a surprisingly accessible and effective benefit for such companies. That benefit is a…
Read MoreSign Up! Manufacturing-Focused Virtual Job Fair Coming In Late July/Early August
During this time of shelter in place restrictions we are seeing a wide variety of activities move from in-person to virtual interactions. Since we are unable to hold traditional in-person job fairs to connect the unprecedented number of unemployed individuals with employers who do have jobs available, the Washington State Employment Security Department (ESD) is…
Read MoreTalking about Race in the Workplace
Recent events in the United States clearly demonstrate the magnitude of the racial divide that currently exists in our society, our institutions and organizations, our cities, and towns, and even in our families. In the midst of this strife, meaningful dialog is not only possible but necessary for healing and peace. The fear and resentment…
Read MoreWhat Exactly is Employee Coaching All About? Coaching 101
Coaching is the process in which an experienced person, called a coach, supports a learner or client in achieving a specific personal or professional goal by providing training and guidance. The overall goal of coaching is to work with the employee to solve performance problems and to improve the work of the employee, the team, and the department. Employees who respond positively to coaching and…
Read MoreAttention Pierce County Businesses: Stay Up-To-Date with the Latest Resources & Information Available
Over the past few weeks, coronavirus has taken the lives of thousands of Americans. But it’s also had dire impacts on the United States economy — delivering a devastating blow for hundreds of thousands of restaurants, stores and other small businesses across the United States economy. Small businesses have been hit especially hard by the…
Read MoreThe Ultimate Test of Leadership: Creating Positive Change
When you hear the word change, what is the first thing you think of? Do you envision yourself walking off of a cliff blindfolded? Often when we hear the word changewe associate it with a negative thought or become fearful. Most of us are creatures of habit and routine and change brings uncertainty and the…
Read MoreSocial Distancing at Work
10 Ways to Have a Better Conversation
How many of you just avoid someone just because you don’t want to talk to them? Celeste Headlee is a journalist, author of the book We Need to Talk: How to Have Conversations That Matter, and previous host of Georgia Public Broadcasting program called “On Second Thought”. Headlee made that comment in a TEDTALK in 2016…
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