When personalities don’t mesh in the workplace or there is a power dynamic that causes an issue, it might be time for a resolution through mediation. Neil and TeKay Brown Taylor, HR Consultant and Professional Mediator discuss the next best steps to take.
Metro Augusta will have roughly 1,300 new job openings within the next 18 to 36 months. That’s based on recent economic development announcements in Richmond and Burke Counties in Georgia and Aiken County in South Carolina. Some, including Meta in the Sage Mill Industrial Park, GF Casting Solutions in the Augusta Corporate Park, and TMC Transformers in the Burke County Industrial Park, plan to build new facilities for the approximately 500 employees the three of them will hire. “All of them have construction-related jobs,” Cal Wray, President of the Augusta
October has been a month of recovery for the CSRA. While there were piles of evidence from Helene’s bad side, many meetings and conventions went forward in the River Region as planned. Destination Augusta and the Augusta Sports Council announced that 3,065 visitors attended events that generated $2,798,000 in total estimated economic impact. Four of those meetings and conventions were held in October, the remaining four other events are upcoming between now and November 22. ABD was curious about how those numbers stack up to the same period last year.
As you may remember from my first column after the storm, one of the major “impacts” the storm had on me personally was the total loss of a vehicle after it was struck by a fallen tree. The vehicle was a 2013 Sport Utility Vehicle (SUV) with almost 160,000 miles on it. I typically buy a vehicle that I think will last a long time, maintain it well, and typically donate it (while it is still running very well) when I finally decide (or my wife forces me) to replace
