09/24/2018

“Who Prospers, Who Suffers”? Blog by:  Kurt Webber, Director of Training, Sherwood Companies, Tulsa, Oklahoma Date:  September 24, 2018 As we all know, the job market is booming in a way that most of us haven’t seen in our lifetime. According to pundits, it’s as competitive as it’s ever been given the low unemployment numbers and the supposed “there are more jobs available than there are workers to fill them.”  In fact, I’ve read where there are at least 3 million more jobs available than there

05/16/2018

THE COMING “WAVE” by Kurt Webber, Director of Training for Sherwood Companies, Tulsa, Oklahoma To be effective at our job and to add value to any organization, the Talent Management field, as well as the Human Resources function, should be keenly aware of the changing dynamics of the workforce.  Meaning, we must stay abreast as to the current employment trends in today’s human capital marketplace.  In order to do this, research must constantly be conducted on the ever-evolving labor force that

05/04/2018

Are Managers to Blame? by Kurt Webber, Director of Training, Sherwood Construction Company, Inc.  Tulsa, Oklahoma Roughly 4 years ago, I had this “brilliant” idea that I needed to write a book.  I had just read a handful of business books, some great, some not so much, and began writing a Leadership Development training program for the company I was working for at the time.  It occurred to me that based on my prior experience, who I was training, how I was training, and what I was training in