Strong job growth and talent retention have long been hallmarks of the public utilities sector. The market resilience and employment stability of these companies has proven advantageous, along with the competitive benefits packages offered to workers in all parts of these organizations. Even with the job losses experienced during the…
The staying power of Power Down Friday: How doing less makes more of a difference
At the close of a successful 2022-23 school year, NTC’s CEO Margaret Eames and President Pat Rowan wanted to give the staff a summer of purposeful restoration. They started Power Down Fridays, a concerted effort to decrease energy consumption as a company while also investing in the work/life balance of…
EARTH DAY ALL YEAR
Earth Day is a celebration and more than 1 billion people world-wide celebrate it each year. But it is more than that too. It is also a call to action. To quote Earthday.org, it is a “reminder of the importance of environmental conservation and sustainability, encouraging us to come together…
EARTH DAY: A CELEBRATION!
Earth Day is deemed a celebration. To quote Earthday.org, it is a call to join in “to honor and celebrate our remarkable planet.” It’s a celebration with about 1 billion participants across the globe every year. That’s about 1/8th of the world’s population. So… Happy Earth Day! Here at NTC…
Community Problems and Solutions
One of the most valuable life skills we can develop is that of problem solving. We will encounter problems for the rest of our lives. Whether at home, work or in the community, problems will arise. The ability to solve them is paramount to our physical and mental health. Personal problems,…
Why is STEM Workforce Development the Wave of the Future?
Today’s job climate is one that we haven’t seen in a generation. There are seemingly endless openings, and one notable result is that there are fewer and fewer young adults enrolling in college. Instead, they’re opting to go straight into the workforce. But are they qualified to handle those jobs?…
Financial Education Services: The Key to Unlocking The Modern American Dream
In America, nearly everything we do revolves around money. Our capitalist society has us making financial choices daily, whether we’re buying our daily Starbucks, purchasing a movie on Amazon, or requesting a payment via Venmo. One would think the fact that we live and work in a system that promotes…
How to Improve Water Quality
Humans have four major needs in this world: food, water, air, and shelter. If we go without any one of them for too long, the consequences are negative at best. Knowing what we know about these four basic needs to support life, it’s important that we sustain each of them.…