Education & Workforce Development
“Help Them Grow or Watch Them Go: Career Conversations Employees Want”
While time constraints often limit employers from tending to their employees' career development, Beverly Kaye and Julie Winkle Giulioni suggest a simple way for managers to fulfill employees' development needs: brief but frequent conversations.
Johnson Controls donates electric cars to Milwaukee high school
Glendale-based Johnson Controls Inc. has donated two electric vehicles and its services in developing related curriculum to Pulaski High School in Milwaukee.
Challenge the status quo
At breakfast with my 13-year-old daughter Chloe and her friend, a baffling question was posed. Chloe's friend asked, "Can I get the vegetarian omelet...but with ham?"
Survey aims to find solutions to labor shortage
Schenck SC and Corporate Report Wisconsin are conducting a statewide survey to gain insight and come up with solutions to the labor shortage among manufacturers in Wisconsin.
Milwaukee Biz Blog: Let’s reinvest in education to bridge skills gap
Tony Evers, Wisconsin's elected state superintendent of public instruction, delivered his 2012 State of Education Address in the State Capitol Rotunda on Thursday.
BizTimes Morning Headlines: State adds jobs, but unemployment rate rises
Wisconsin's unemployment rate increased to 7.5 percent in July, from 7.3 percent the month before, even though 4,300 new private-sector jobs were added. The latest jobs numbers show that about 19,000 jobs have been created since Walker took office in 2011.
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Let’s reinvest in education to bridge skills gap
Editor’s note: The following is the text of the 2012 State of Education Address delivered by Tony Evers, Wisconsin’s elected state superintendent of public instruction, in the State Capitol Rotunda Thursday.
Hudson office space to open next week
Hudson Business Lounge + Espresso Bar announced that it will hold a soft opening on Wednesday, Sept. 26, for the first 50 members who signed up last September. As a business coworking space where entrepreneurs, small businesses, consultants and other professionals can establish their offices, Hudson aims to grow a membership of 250 businesses.
Allow employees to grow
Mark Sellers is CEO of MGS Mfg. Group, a $150 million company headquartered in Germantown, with facilities in the United States, Mexico and Ireland. MGS provides engineered solutions to the plastics industry. Sellers began the company in 1982 as a small tool and die shop. Today, MGS employs more than 500 people in Wisconsin, with an additional 500 employees worldwide. Sellers says employees can become valuable assets if they are allowed room to grow.
Be bold: Culture of Innovation drives Pinstripe’s growth
Pinstripe Inc. has been doubling in size every 12 to 18 months since it was founded in 2005, and the Brookfield-based company recently received a substantial investment from California private equity firm Accel-KKR.
