All posts tagged "News"

  • The Future of Work After COVID-19
    Workforce Development News – February 22, 2021

    This week: Future of Work After COVID, Millions of Jobs Probably Aren’t Coming Back, Black-Owned Banks and the Communities They Serve, Majority See COVID Disruption Well Into 2021, Jobs Recovery Still Long Way Off, Engage Your Frontline...

    • Posted February 22, 2021
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  • Virtual Learning Is Not Child’s Play for K–12 Students
    Workforce Development News – February 17, 2021

    This week: Bleak Employment Picture, K–12 Student Virtual Learning, Occupational Mobility Explorer, Deaths from COVID-19, Pandemic Unemployment Insurance and Spending, Living Wage Calculator for Missouri, Middle Class Monitor, St. Louis Fed’s Institute for Economic Equity: Pursuing an...

    • Posted February 17, 2021
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  • The Critical Role of Workforce Training in the Labor Market Recovery
    Workforce Development News – February 8, 2021

    This week: How Fast Is The Economy Recovering?, America’s Deeply Unequal Economic Recovery, Pandemic Pushes Mothers of Young Children Out of the Labor Force, Older Workers Accounted for All Net Employment Growth in Past 20 Years, Critical...

    • Posted February 8, 2021
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  • Meeting the Challenges of a Pandemic World
    Meeting the Challenges of a Pandemic World

    The very good news for today is that American manufacturing's ability to respond quickly to new challenges is very much alive and well. Here's Essex Industries’ story on how they successfully pivoted from live to Zoom-based training...

    • Posted February 2, 2021
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  • Less Painful Video Meetings
    Workforce Development News – February 1, 2021

    This week: Reasons We’re Seeing These Worrying Coronavirus Variants Now, Why Vaccines Alone Will Not End the Pandemic, Unemployment Is Much Worse Than You Think, Economy Slows Sharply As Pandemic Resurges, Small Business Survey Shows Shift in...

    • Posted February 1, 2021
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  • Elon's opening of the Tesla Annual Shareholders Meeting by Steve Jurvetson, licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license.
    Elon Musk on Money, Success, and Leadership

    When asked about the fact that he was now the wealthiest person in the world Musk replied, “How strange. Well, back to work.” Lean leadership is all about understanding that making money is not the primary goal...

    • Posted January 26, 2021
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  • Build a More Resilient Team
    Workforce Development News – January 25, 2021

    This week: Federal Reserve Beige Book, Strategies to Build a More Resilient Team, Understanding the Racial and Income Gap in COVID, When will the COVID pandemic end?, Employees Don’t Feel Safe Going to Work, Why We Should...

    • Posted January 25, 2021
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  • Trends That Will Shape Work in 2021 and Beyond
    Workforce Development News – January 19, 2021

    This week: When Back to School Meets Stay at Home, Trends That Will Shape Work in 2021 and Beyond, Jobless Claims Surge to Highest Weekly Total Since August, Unemployment Claims Jump Sharply-Showing the Pandemic’s Continuing Economic Toll,...

    • Posted January 19, 2021
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  • Trends that Will Define 2021
    Workforce Development News – January 11, 2021

    This week: Economy Sees Job Loss for the First Time in Eight Months as Surging Virus Takes Toll, Economy Lost 140,000 Jobs in December-All of Them Were Held by Women, Trends that Will Define 2021—And Beyond, Productivity...

    • Posted January 11, 2021
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  • 4 Major Unknowns of How Vaccines Will Affect the Covid-19 Pandemic
    Workforce Development News – January 4, 2021

    This week: CFOs Optimistic but Uncertain About the Pace of Recovery, Expand the Economy by Investing in Black Businesses, “She-Cession” Persists, How Businesses Can Find “Hidden Workers,” COVID-19 Vaccines and Uncertain Americans, Encourage Employees to Get the...

    • Posted January 4, 2021
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