2026 Newsletter Editions

Succession Planning - Passing the Baton

Succession Planning That Works

How employers use apprenticeships to build what’s next Clint Hankinson IN AN EVER-EVOLVING marketplace, shortages of skills, the challenges of an aging workforce, and the constant demands of technology significantly impact the success of today’s organizations, making effective succession planning more important than ever. Longtime skilled workers are retiring, while others are finding greener pastures […]

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Verdia Mays - Highland Pellets Apprentice

Apprenticeship Spotlight

MEET VERDIA MAYSAge: 46Hometown: Pine BluffApprenticeship: Highland Pellets MY BACK STORY I grew up in Pine Bluff, and I’ve been here all my life. I love it. I’m the next to the youngest of five children, and my two brothers and two sisters and I had a wonderful childhood. We were lucky enough to have

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Manufacturing opportunities

A Message to Manufacturers

The Director’s Chair GREETINGS FROM OUR neck of the frozen Southland. We at Apprenticely hope this month’s newsletter finds all of you well and warm and your new year off to a good start. On our end, we’re excited to be celebrating, and participating in, the January 28 kickoff of the American Manufacturing Apprenticeship Incentive

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