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Equipment Labor Shortage Challenges and Solutions for 2024 Guest writer Greg Grady writes today about the new year just around the corner in “Equipment Labor Shortage Challenges and Solutions for 2024.” Finding out how technology, including automation, can help address heavy equipment workforce shortages in 2024 and beyond. In 2024, the heavy equipment rental and […]

More, Better, and Creative Courtesy of the Water Well Journal, Editor Thad Plumley provides this week’s guest blog post in “More, Better, and Creative.” I spoke years ago with the manager of a book warehouse whose workforce mostly consisted of temporary employees. I asked why he didn’t have more full-timers and was told the workers […]

Top Three Reasons to Skip the University System Guest writer Isaac Rollor shares some different options in 2023 for high school graduates in “Top Three Reasons to Skip the University System.” Top three reasons to skip the university system and pursue a heavy equipment career in 2023. Imagine yourself as an 18-year-old high school graduate […]

Changes in Learning Today, our Founder Ron Slee writes a blog post on the many changes in learning. He also makes a few grumbles about how his family gives him a hard time! It has been some time since I wrote a blog on employee development. It is unusual for me not to be sharing […]

Can’t Find Technicians? Guest writer Alex Kraft challenges the pattern of blaming entire generations of people for labor shortages in his blog post “Can’t Find Technicians?” I get a chuckle when I hear the narrative around “can’t find people who want to be a diesel technician.” I’ve heard it since the day I started my […]

How To Improve Customer Retention This week, guest writers Steve Clegg and Debbie Frakes talk with readers about how to improve customer retention. This is one of the best ways to build successes: keep the customers you already have! Retention is critical for the long-term success of any business. It’s crucial because it is far […]