One of the highlights on our calendar each year is the first Friday in October, which is Manufacturing Day here in the United States.

Science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) career outreach programs play a pivotal role in shaping the capabilities and makeup of the future workforce.

Do you know the one thing you can do to light the fire of motivation, energy, creativity, and self-propelled action in your employees?

Alan Colquitt is a student of the ways people act in the workplace.

Is your organization built on a culture of trust?

Does this sound familiar? The keynote speaker is talking a mile a minute as you scramble to take notes on her every word. Your hand cramps, and then it’s over. Speaker bows to a standing ovation while you sit perturbed, knowing you missed some things.

Editor’s note: This story is part of Map to the Middle Class, a Hechinger Report series looking at the good middle-class jobs of the future and how schools are preparing young people for

How do workers move up the corporate ladder, and how can they maximize their career mobility?

Some of the most celebrated education reform efforts today serve to make instruction more difficult. Personalized learning, project-based learning, mastery-based learning—they all require more work of teachers and more work of students.

Does your organization benefit from lessons learned? Does it learn from previous quality issues? A vast amount of learning takes place every day in every manufacturing facility.