Workforce
September Blog: Workforce Connector
Quiet Quitting: Quiet quitting is a problem many businesses are facing with their workforce. This problem occurs when workforce members just meet the bare minimum of what is required or are psychologically disengaged at work. This problem has become a major issue especially for young members of the workforce. Younger millennials and Gen Z employees…
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Eau Claire Area School District Employer Tours: The Eau Claire Are School district is working with the Eau Claire Area Chamber of Commerce to set up opportunities for Middle School students to tour local employers in the area. The local employers will have a chance to show young students how the local workforce does good…
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Eau Claire Chamber Hosted First Ever Meet and Mingle for New UW-Eau Claire Faculty With new faculty members joining the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire (U.W.E.C.) this upcoming academic year of 2022, the Explore Eau Claire program decided to welcome the faculty with their very first Meet and Mingle event. This event allowed the new faculty…
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Work-Life Balance With the fast pace working culture, it’s easy for members of the workforce to get overwhelmed and make unnecessary sacrifices to their personal lives. With all the technology available to finish tasks in a timely manner and the ability to send constant messages to coworkers, it’s difficult to get away from work. The…
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Welcoming New Employees When new employees join a company’s workforce, welcoming them is an important step. When an employer welcomes new employees, they have a chance to make a good impression and show the new employees that they made a good choice to work with for them. If new employees don’t feel welcomed to the…
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Failures In the workplace, when an employee or the company as a whole is working towards a goal, failure is an essential part of the process. Failure occurs when a goal isn’t achieved or a step to overcome a challenge isn’t overcome. While failure is never enjoyable, it’s also an essential part of the process.…
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Importance of Pronouns Pronouns are meant to help individuals let others know how they identify. Pronouns can help workforce members make sure they keep an inclusive environment within the company. When a person shares their pronouns, they are expressing the pronouns that they want to be referred by. If an employee addresses another employee using…
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Enduring the Process Each member of a company’s workforce has goals he or she is looking to achieve in their career path. To achieve goals in a career path, every employee needs to endure a process to achieve the goal. While in the process, the employee will learn valuable lessons essential for the next step…
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Leadership Styles The leadership of every company plays an important role in the success of the company. Every company has a different style of leadership that is needed based on the company’s situation and the workforce the leadership team is in charge of. There are five different styles of leadership companies can use to help…
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Goal setting in the workplace Goal setting is one of the most important parts of workforce progress. Goal setting occurs when an individual employee and or an entire workforce devotes time and energy to achieve something. Workplace goal examples are increasing DEI in a certain department, coming up with a new marketing campaign, creating a…
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