by Fort Collins Chamber | Sep 22, 2020 | Business & Economy, Business-Friendly Environment, Economy, Talent
Last week the Chamber announced its annual Talent Summit. It will be Wednesday, September 30. We quickly got over 50 registrations. What’s with that? Aren’t we in a Covid-19 induced recession? The answer can be found in an editorial on the 13th by the Editorial Board...
by Fort Collins Chamber | Mar 17, 2020 | Business & Economy, Business-Friendly Environment, Leadership
As I get older, sometimes it is difficult to find the benefits of aging. One advantage, however, is perspective. If you live long enough, you do experience a lot of things. The current climate of virus-panic is difficult and will be for a while, but we will come out...
by Fort Collins Chamber | Jan 21, 2020 | Business & Economy, Business-Friendly Environment, Economy, Talent
As a function of my job, I am a professional talker. Several times a month I speak to local groups about the economy and key trends in the area. A few gems from a recent presentation: 27 percent of our two-county workforce commutes here everyday from the Denver area...
by Fort Collins Chamber | Sep 24, 2019 | Business & Economy, Business-Friendly Environment, Economy, Talent
Work in Northern Colorado (aka Talent 2.0) is a major initiative of the Fort Collins Area Chamber of Commerce. In broad terms, it is focused on three major things: putting tools in the hands of human resource staff and recruiters to help with their talent recruitment...
by Fort Collins Chamber | Sep 3, 2019 | Business & Economy, Business-Friendly Environment, Economy, Talent
Finding workers is a big, big challenge for many employers, as you probably already know. It’s a regular point of conversation with our members. In light of that, an interesting story in the July 1 edition of the Wall Street Journal caught my eye. In a story titled...
by Fort Collins Chamber | Jul 16, 2019 | Business & Economy, Business-Friendly Environment, Leadership
Last week McKinsey Global Institute (MGI), the business and economics research arm of McKinsey, published a new report titled The future of work in America: People and places, today and tomorrow and Northern Colorado shows well. MGI analyzed more than 3,000 counties...
