With disproportionately higher unemployment rates among “Gulf War-era II Veterans” at 29.1%…
Category Archives: Back to Work Through Innovation
Build Your Own Apprenticeship Program – Why #2
Yesterday I talked about how an Apprenticeship Program benefits businesses
Building Your Own Apprenticeship Program – Why #1 – All Skill Bases Are Covered
Wouldn’t it be amazing if your business constantly had employees who have all mastered the skills of your industry, they’re all trained the exact same way and they all embody your business’ core values? Well, that concept is easily attainable by having your own Apprenticeship Program. When you bring an apprentice on board with your [...]
Building Your Own Apprenticeship Program – The 4 Whys Behind It
For the past few weeks we have been discussing how you can develop your own Apprenticeship Program for your business, but now it’s time for you to know WHY it’s important to develop your own program. It’s obvious that after the economy took a hit a few years ago that the unemployment rate increased because [...]
You Have Served Us – Now Let Us Serve You
Literally, you have served us, now let us serve you. Today will be a day of seizing major opportunities and making connections to help Veterans for the greater good. As we all know today is Veteran’s Day and while most people are respectfully taking the day off in honor of those men and women who [...]
Would You Listen to a Soccer Coach Who Only Played Baseball?
Of course you wouldn’t, and that’s why I spent most of my day yesterday prospecting. I was talking to customers the same way I will be teaching my Apprentices to do in the future. I did that because after reflecting on my years of experience in sales, I realized that leadership by example is the [...]
Creating Your Apprenticeship Program – Part 2
With any successful program there are always rules. When it comes to creating an Apprenticeship Program there is one main rule that stands out, your program has to have a certain number of hours. For our labor categories we needed to develop 2,880 – 6,000 hours of raining. For every 2,000 hours of On the Job [...]
Feds Hire Vets
President Barack Obama signed Executive Order 13518, Employment of Veterans in the Federal Government, which establishes the Veterans Employment Initiative…
Getting Kids Interested in Science and Technology
Our biggest challenge is identifying how to get kids interested in computer science and engineering studies. How do we …
If You Build It They Will Sell
You may have heard the phrase “If you build it they will come,” but today I’m here to tell you “If you build it they will sell. “By “it,” I don’t mean the product or service that they will sell, I mean the backbone that you develop in your Apprentice. The backbone is everything that you teach them, [...]
