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Investing in Quality Leadership Training for Managers

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Good managers are good for business. Taking them to the next level of effective managers to grow your business takes training. Good managers possess the ability to lead and communicate. They are your key to inspiring your line level teams toward the corporate vision and the organizations business goals. Effective managers, on the other hand, possess a specific skill-set. They have a range of knowledge and demonstrate behaviors that are not always present in managers that evolve into leadership positions. There are some managers with whom these qualities are a natural fit. Those are not the ones we discuss here today as while they are great; they are also the extreme minority. The goal is to select leaders beyond just strong characters or showing dedication to work. The goal is to have a skill-set that comprises a toolkit of qualities (some through training) that will drive the best results for a business. A few primary key characteristics lacking today are the ability to com...
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Baltimore Revitalization: Employment in Underserved Neighborhoods

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With Baltimore's speedy decline came the lack of employment, or decent employment, in the city. More and more of the best and brightest residents are leaving because they cannot afford to stay in the crumbling economy of many struggling neighborhoods in Baltimore City. What exactly can be done to help counteract this decline? Construction training Recently, parts of California were ablaze with wildfires. They needed a lot of manpower just to contain the enormous devastation and did not have adequate resources to combat it. One of the unique strategies that they used was to allow inmates to help with the firefighting efforts. These inmates then learned individual employable skill sets and supported the expanded community tackling this enormous disaster in their home state. When they are released, this training can help them to land jobs, and further help rebuilds economic capacity in their communities. This idea is also helping many people in Baltimore. Demolition, recla...
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Baltimore Revitalization: Construction, Deconstruction, and Demolition in Underserved Communities.

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Baltimore's inner-city neighborhoods are under-invested, and they have all the negative social and economic indicators common to other large US cities. The indicators are well known – chronic poverty, poor quality housing, high unemployment, poor educational results, high crime, poor health, low incomes, and low household net-worth. Many young people experience the criminal justice system.  They then encounter even more difficulties reentering society, getting a job, and earning income.  There is a high degree of crimes, high dropouts, low rate of graduation, high poverty, and the physical and mental crisis of health in the city. There are many residents who are underemployed, unemployed, and unskilled for many of the available high salaried jobs vacancies in Baltimore. Moreover, many people who have been incarcerated cannot find jobs. There are about 17,000 vacant and abandoned buildings in the city that are idle. Baltimore's construction industry needs many more good wo...
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Baltimore Revitalization – Economic Inclusion in Underserved Communities.

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Is it enough to see pictures of neighborhood deterioration? Is it enough to hear about how a city neighborhood is perceived as no longer “safe”? While pictures may speak a thousand words, the pain felt by those living in the affected communities can never be truly pictured. What can we do? How we got here is not as important as how we can enact change, and reverse the trend of decay. Urban decay is yet another term used to define neighborhoods scarred from changes to local business, demographics, economics etc. This is a severe issue that is plaguing Baltimore, Maryland. Baltimore loses both money and people at an astounding rate, mainly due to the city itself falling into disrepair. In fact, the more people that they lose, the more likely it is that their buildings will never get fixed. While there are many reasons that this may happen, such as the high poverty rate, the fact that 4 out of 5 black youth never graduate, or the high level of former inmates, we as a people have...
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How to Revitalize Baltimore City

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Urban Decay or blight is a significant and fast-growing problem in Baltimore, Maryland. The city deteriorates every day, losing people, money, and most notably, the upkeep of many of its residential and commercial neighborhoods. As a result, economic conditions for people living in these communities especially continue to worsen, leaving them living in conditions barely above the poverty line. Problems that further emanate from this include crime and teens dropping out of schools. There is a pressing need therefore to take drastic measures that not only tackle the increasing problem of urban blight but also improve economic conditions for the citizens, especially in the affected dis-invested neighborhoods. The issue of blight facing the city motivated civic leadership to take action after the Freddie Gray uprising nearly three years ago. According to a January 2017 Baltimore Sun newspaper article, Maryland State and Baltimore City policymakers have committed more than 700 mi...
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