Reprint from American Fastener Journal, November/December 2019

In recent years, the universal chorus of manufacturers across the country seems to be how they are going to recruit new members to their team to keep up with new openings and backfill the exodus of an older workforce that is quickly retiring. To their chagrin, they have learned that even if they have a good solution to this first challenge, other, often more imposing challenges quickly follow suit. Once they have new team members aboard, they find themselves challenged to bridge an ever-widening skills gap. As a result, workplace development in the form of education and training has become increasingly more important.

From Link Magazine, Winter 2013

During a visit home in my junior year of college, I was told a story about something that happened to two brothers I had known from scouting. They were a couple of years younger than me and still in high school at the time. Their father had purchased a car for them with expectations that they were to be responsible for its care and upkeep. In their zeal to prove to their father that he had made a wise investment in their development, they decided to change the oil themselves. So they went out, purchased several quarts of oil, a filter, and proceeded to drain and replace the oil.

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