Shortage of employees? Juggling skeleton crews’ vacation schedules? Searching for qualified team members?
Everyone is dealing with staffing concerns. Most companies, big and small, are experiencing the same challenges. These are unprecedented times of organizations and businesses not being fully staffed add to ownership and management stress. Seeking to fill position vacancies, interviewing, hiring and training can raise the blood pressure.

These challenges became universal issues about 18 months ago, and as we are near 2023 all signs point to this trend continuing. How do businesses cope, survive and prosper?

The bright side is leadership skills to put the best team members in position for the entire organization to excel have sharpened, maybe by force but nonetheless sharpened. Rio Grande Valley companies and organizations are obviously balancing production and employee schedules while maintaining positive morale at the workplace.

Passionate and determined leaders throughout our four counties are cutting the mustard. That’s an old phrase my elementary teachers used way back in the day. It means “the job is getting done.”

Tough times teach valuable lessons when we are humble enough to listen and learn new tricks. Achieving new levels of professional development is the goal for all of us. That’s what we are called to do, and Rio Grande Valley leadership is rising to the occasion — aiming high and winning big.