I am quite certain that I let out an audible gasp when they first caught my eye. Red plaid, patent leather, and high heeled: sophisticated and playful at the same time....
Career Development
The construction industry stands alone in its diversity of occupations, crafts and breadth of opportunities for learning and leadership. Career development choices include crafts training, apprenticeships, advanced equipment operations, supervising, information technologies, project management, engineering and general management. Good educational systems should build awareness and prepare students of all ages for selecting among the many options for getting started.
I recently visited the offices and training facilities of Houston’s SER-Jobs for Progress, guided by the executive director of SER, Nory Angel. SER, which means “to be” in...
The National AGC Safety and Health Conference] was held in San Antonio in January and I had the opportunity to present the Construction Career Collaborative (C3) industry...
The National Public Radio debate show Intelligence Squared U.S. recently aired a deliberation on whether or not “Too Many Kids Are Going To College”. Held in Chicago on...
If you read my post about the Construction Education Foundation of North Texas, you might recall I recognized this organization as a pocket of excellence. In this post I would...
A favorite quote among training professionals is one from Zig Ziglar, “What’s worse than training your workers and losing them? Not training them and keeping them.”How...
Today, The WorkFaith Connection of Houston held its 4th annual fundraising breakfast with keynote speaker Herman Cain. There was an overflow crowd.The WorkFaith Connection...
Graduation ceremonies are interesting. They are celebrations, “crossing of the bar,” successful completions. Not only are they completions, but they are new beginnings...
The objective of most employees is earning a living doing what you enjoy doing. The objective of most businesses is building a competent and professional workforce able to...
