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- A practical question: Examine a challenge in workforce planning, training, frontline leadership, or labor-management relationships.
- Experience and analysis: Explore what the issue means for the people who lead, train, represent, and rely on building-trades professionals.
- An idea to apply: Bring a useful principle, framework, or discussion question to your next leadership conversation.
By Michael Shue—drawing on experience as a Boilermaker, Pipefitter, union steward, instructor, and corporate labor-relations leader.
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Solve It Here—or Escalate It There
When should a problem stay close to the work—and when must it escalate? Explore the Travel Test and a practical scheduling scenario.
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