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Is Prior Experience (or Training) A Guarantee of Future Safety?

by Bart Gragg

From time immemorial man has discussed whether prior experience is a guarantee of future results from an employee.  There are ever many factors involved in ‘guess-timating’ their potential for success, but the one that I continually come back to is “In what context will they be a success? What are your criteria??

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Ten Words Not to Use With Blue Collar Managers

by Bart Gragg

When a person moves from labor into management they enter a whole new realm of communication, including vocabulary.

Quite often I hear them talk about and ridicule ‘biz-speak’ or ‘corporate-speak’. It’s not that they cannot grasp these concepts, it’s just that they have never experienced them. Some of them are useless to the blue collar manager, others you will want them to understand. Before you use words, phrases and acronyms be sure your audience understands them.

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From Outhouse to In-House – Challenges Blue Collar Managers Face – Pt. 3

by Bart Gragg

When The New Blue Collar Manager moves from the field to the office he encounters several psychological reactions, chief among them scarcity.
From wide open spaces, outside with the horizon in view, inside a large warehouse, open yards, hot and cold, freedom, ah yes, living the great outdoors life! Then reality hits like a…

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The Top Challenges New Blue Collar Managers Face

by Bart Gragg

The single most prominent challenge that managers who have moved from the field/warehouse into the office face is an environmental change. This environmental change actually has subsets such as:

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