9 Great Ways to Ensure Employee Retention
“The best advice I can offer on how to keep your best employees is this: Be willing to let them go. It’s no surprise that every manager wants to keep his or her best employees. But a good manager doesn’t hoard talent; instead they develop their employees by investing in them, building on their strengths, and providing opportunities to innovate.” John Ambrose, Sr.VP of strategy and corporate development at Skillsoft Employee retention is a key element in making 2016 a prosperous year for your precision manufacturing company. MPS Technical has put together 9 invaluable tips to help you hit a home run…
Preparing for Future Manufacturing Staffing Needs May Be Two-fold
To gain a perspective on blue collar jobs, USA News Today interviewed Mike Rowe, host of “Somebody’s Gotta Do It,” and former host of “Dirty Jobs” as his job requires him to travel the country and speak with the blue collar workforce. As Rowe traveled, he saw “help wanted” signs in every single state and met hundreds of available workers. However, workers were not connecting to available positions because nobody was walking them through the process of how to locate and secure them. “There are 4 million jobs, a very small percentage that require a four-year degree, but most require…
Trading Resolutions for a Customized Professional Action Plan
From pearls of ancient wisdom, “If you don’t know what port you are sailing to; no wind is favorable.” Seneca ‘The Younger’, 4BC-AD65 To thoughts from today’s greatness, “Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.” Steve Jobs, 1955-2011 The message rings true: Knowing your personal destiny, and making a plan to fulfill it, is a key element of success. So, here at MPS, we say . . . Scratch the New Year’s Resolutions – only 8% successfully achieve them – and make a…