Workforce Insights

  Mental Health is a Workforce Challenge and Opportunity According to the Brookings Institute, a 2016 survey of individuals aged 25-54 who were not in the labor force showed that nearly half of men and 54% of women reported taking pain medications daily and, "one...

,  Making Your Swing Work For You Those of us who follow organizational leadership trends are constantly looking for that one best way to run an org, manage a team or even work. Whether Jack Welch from General Electric Co., Bill Gates at Microsoft or the multitude of...

  2022 Year in Review 2022 was my first full calendar year working with Invest Hamilton County… and it was among one of the greatest years of my working life. Some of you are likely aware of the many roles and identities this organization has had within the...

Resiliency is a climbing harness not a bootstrap Before the pandemic I can't recall resiliency being a word present in my everyday interactions. But since, it has become one of those topics on everyone's mind… and one with a myriad array of definitions and...

  Working the Macro and Micro of Workforce Workforce development looks very different depending on perspective. As we engage with stakeholders in our community on their workforce challenges what a solution looks like is very different. Solving an employer's...

Goals and Gratitude I try to remember every morning to write out a list of my goals for the day and things I am grateful for. Especially during this holiday season, I often find myself consistently grateful for all the amazing things happening in my life, and since...

Wages: Where are they now? All the time when I’m watching TV in the evening I’ll have a thought like, “I wonder where contestant X is from Top Chef Season 8?” I’ll then whip out the phone and do a quick search in Google or IMDB. The nerd-alert admission on my end is I...

The Golden Rule – Not So Golden in the Workplace I remember growing up a lesson instilled in pretty much everyone was, "treat others how you want to be treated." It is an important moral lesson in empathy and one that will hopefully be taught to children for...

2% - Why This Career Center Looks Different In my work with industry throughout the state and the country I have had the pleasure of touring some truly state of the art training facilities. These modernly designed, beautiful, engaging, and well-equipped spaces seem...

Title: Hamilton Co Has 16,000+ Open Jobs…. Breaking Down the Data When considering how hot the labor market has been over the past year it seems like a wild time to be saying we've hit a new peak. The goal of federal action on interest rates to combat inflation was/is...