Workforce Strategies

Workforce Strategies

Top Management Potential: Qualities to Cultivate, and How to Uplift Internal Talent

As part of its ongoing efforts to highlight association members, AEM recently connected with Don Townsend, president of AEM service member company Donley Townsend Associates and...

How Can the Manufacturing Industry Attract and Retain Gen Z?

The labor shortage is not unique to the manufacturing industry – it extends to almost every field, as multiple employers struggle to pull talent, and retain talent, from the...

People Come First: How Husco Advanced its Organizational Culture and Turned the Tide on Talent Retention

By Mike Schmidt, AEM Director of Industry Communications —“You can’t take your eye off the ball. Success comes down to doing the right thing, day in and day out.” – Husco’s...

Digital Operations Platform: A New Approach to Manufacturing Employee Retention and Operational Success

By Harold Ford, Employee Experience Practice Director, Net at Work —Retaining key talent is a top business challenge for the nation’s manufacturing companies, according to...

This Manufacturing Day, Let’s Remember Our Work is Just Getting Started

By Megan Tanel, AEM President —If there’s one thing you can say about the equipment manufacturing industry, it’s that it’s always evolving and finding ways to do things faster...

There’s Hope: How 5 Construction Firms are Attracting and Keeping Workforce

The numbers are brutal.The construction industry had an estimated 494,000 job openings at the end of April 2022, the highest ever.The median age of a construction worker is now...