Leadership
Prepare your successor and step down with grace
Succession is not an event, but a process, writes Alaina Love, who outlines three immediate actions leaders can take now.
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Education
AI and CTE: Helping students learn about AI for jobs is crucial
AI in education is important, but AI and CTE are a must-have partnership to help prepare students for jobs-yet-to-be and AI itself.
Food
Q&A: Checking in on trends, resources for wine and beverage professionals
Program Director for the CIA Wine & Beverage Summit Maryam Ahmed gives a sneak peek at what attendees can expect next year and discusses wine and beverage trends that are on the rise.
Travel
How to serve return-to-base business travelers
This piece is the last of four installments in a series exploring strategies for the hotel, lodging, meetings, and travel industries to effectively cater...
Infrastructure
Gevo’s Patrick Gruber on What’s Next for Sustainable Aviation Fuel
Can a sustainable fuel actually be carbon negative? Dr. Patrick Gruber from Gevo says yes. Yes, it can.
Leadership
Are you, as a leader, suffering from BMS?
Leaders of any gender or era can suffer from BMS -- boomer male syndrome -- if they rely on old-school tactics of command and control, says S. Chris Edmonds.
Communication
Eliminate the drama storm — Write your team’s rules of the road
Leaders can quell the drama storm in their teams with seven questions to help them clarify the "rules of the road," writes Art Petty.
Infrastructure
Double Feature: E-Liability and Virtual Power Purchase Agreements
Learn more about environmental liability (E-liability), which is a simple, accurate, and verifiable calculation for the total cradle-to-gate emissions of any product or service. Also hear what companies should know when considering virtual power purchase agreements.
Development
Sagacious leaders free up other’s wisdom — for free
Wisdom is all around us, Larry Robertson writes, and suggests top leaders seek out that wisdom and encourage their teams to do the same.
Infrastructure
Colgate-Palmolive’s Vance Merolla on Squeezing the Most Out of Sustainability Efforts
Vance Merolla, Senior Vice President of Global Sustainability at Colgate-Palmolive, discusses how that company tackles sustainability across all its products and brands.
Food
Getting the most out of urban grocery store design
Architecture and construction executives shared case studies and advice for getting the most out of urban grocery store design at the FMI Energy & Store Design Conference.
Food
Building the refrigeration technician workforce of tomorrow
Finding ways to recruit and retain refrigeration technicians will be key for HVAC and refrigeration suppliers and the retailers they serve, especially as they make the transition to natural refrigerants, a panel of experts said during a session at FMI -- The Food Industry Association's Energy & Store Development Conference this week in Baltimore.
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Facing the building services hiring challenge
This piece is sponsored by TEAM Software by WorkWave In a tight labor market, commercial cleaning companies need help both recruiting and retaining a...
Education
Exploring teacher professional learning opportunities at the Smithsonian
The Smithsonian Institution offers many free professional learning opportunities for teachers, often held during the summer.
Marketing
Why understanding the history of marketing matters today
In today's digitized marketing world, where clicks and pixels are the metrics of success and AI is a growing concern, is it worth looking back at the fundamentals and history of marketing?
Analysis
AI is making networking and social skills more critical. Are your students prepared?
Social skills are a must for landing a job, but today's students lack the confidence to talk easily with adults. Here are ways to help.
Infrastructure
Climate Week Kicks Off and the Inflation Reduction Act Turns 1
Lauren Collins and Michael Joyce from V&E look ahead to Climate Week and reflect on the first year of the Inflation Reduction Act
Infrastructure
How Companies Are Leveraging Solar-As-A-Service
Harald Overholm, the co-founder and CEO of Alight Energy walks us through current solar trends in the Nordics and the rest of Europe
Education
Encourage high-school students to read more by giving them choices
Allowing choice of book levels, genres and topics can make reading in high school more likely -- both for assigned work and for pleasure.
Digital Technology
Retail media: Why growth is moving off-site and in-store
Retail media is evolving fast – and Brandcrush’s Teresa Aprile details three key opportunities: in-store revival, off-site audiences and standards for measurement and process.
Leadership
Sexist humor at work is even more toxic than you thought
Sexist humor in the workplace may seem harmless, but new research shows it could undermine the careers of both men and women.
Infrastructure
Optimizing the Grid to Electrify Everything
3M's Terry Collier shares his insights on the latest technologies and strategies to bring more renewables online and enhance grid stability and resiliency.
Education
12 free themed resources from Smithsonian’s Teaching Toolkit
12 back-to-school resources from the Smithsonian and 12 conversations to bring into your classroom
Leadership
Advice on expanding overseas in uncertain times
Gavin O’Loughlin offers five steps for US companies seeking to expand their business to the European Union.
Food
Sweetening sustainability: Infuse optimism for lasting ESG impact
The Hartman Group outlines a few key ways to give your sustainability strategy its personality back.
Digital Technology
Engaging customers through video games
Forget the mall food court, the parking lot behind the 7-Eleven and the local bar when it comes to youth hangouts. For 40% of...
Edtech
It’s not easy being a STEM competition judge
Middle- and high-school students focus on local problems with global ripples as they compete in STEM competition.
Educational Leadership
Juggling learning and fun with center-based play
Play-based programs are wonderful, but they must be balanced with activities that reinforce the concepts students are learning.
Digital Technology
How publishers can diversify revenue streams
For publishers to diversify their revenue streams, they have to know their audience and their content, before they can generate competition.
Education
In support of new experiences
New experiences create opportunities to do things differently, take stock of our limitations and increase our enjoyment.
Leadership
There is no cruise control in leadership
It would be handy to be able to put our leadership on cruise control, but Steve McKee writes it's better to learn to handle the curves.
Consumer Insights
Consumer trade-offs in the face of inflation
As consumers are feeling the squeeze of inflation, their food choices and grocery shopping habits are shifting.
Marketing
What reading trends mean for content marketers
Here is a three-pronged approach for content marketers to develop copy and content to engage with readers and keep them coming back.
Career-Technical Education
How a “Dracula”-themed escape room helped drive deeper learning with project-based learning
We put students in charge of a project-based learning project -- a multidiscipline "Dracula"-themed escape room -- and here’s what happened.
Edtech
4 ways to humanize your school-home communications
Video messages, social media and personalization via a school-home communications system have helped make stronger connections.
Education
Do you have the school safety measures necessary for a safe learning space?
Prevention, preparedness and response are the three legs of the school safety stool. Technology offers helpful school safety measures.
Healthcare
New option on the horizon for children with PANS
Pediatricians may have a new option for treating children with PANS
Education
Do you have the school safety measures necessary for a safe learning space?
Prevention, preparedness and response are the three legs of the school safety stool. Technology offers helpful school safety measures.
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Four tips to engaging with your customers post-purchase
How to keep customers coming back for more after their initial purchase.
Education
Physical school safety changes we made after a shooting at our middle school
An Idaho superintendent shares lessons learned after a school shooting and changes made to enhance school safety.
Career-Technical Education
Offering prior learning credits helps increase earning power
Getting college credit for prior learning can help people slash thousands of dollars from tuition and reduce time needed to complete a degree.
Infrastructure
Chemistry’s Key Role in Advancing Sustainability
Charles Franklin from the American Chemistry Council discusses the role the business of chemistry -- and natural gas in particular -- plays not just in sustainability, but also the overall economy.