The state of American manufacturing has changed drastically since the COVID-19 pandemic. This report reviews those changes and what we should expect moving forward.

If you want to improve the communications inside your company, you need to be willing to invest in employee training.

Every company needs to adopt an employee training philosophy to thrive. See how skills training creates a win-win situation for employers and employees.

Every company needs to adopt an employee training philosophy to thrive. See how skills training creates a win-win situation for employers and employees.

As an employer, you need to create an employee retention program that keeps your brightest stars from fizzling out. See what you can do to tackle turnover.

Training is so much more than information exchange. It is an opportunity to present and sell your brand to an internal customer.

The path you choose can directly impact your retention numbers and soft-cost bottom line. The question is, how do you value training?

American manufacturers have about 350,000 current job openings and are facing a looming shortage of 2.4 million workers by 2028, and the silver tsunami of retiring Baby Boomers is impacting manufacturing as much as any other industry.

If you want to make learning and development part of your company culture, there are different ways to go about it. You can choose to onboard, upskill, and reskill your employees via in-person training, online training, or a combination of the two.

Whether your company is ready or not, your older employees are going to retire and take years of valuable experience with them. As of 2017, nearly 25% of the manufacturing workforce was 55 or older.