The shortage of skilled workers is already surfacing as a constraint to manufacturing companies for engineers, scientists, skilled trades, electronic techs, certain machine operators with special skills and so on. In contrast, those performing manual labor and running outdated, legacy equipment are finding themselves disadvantaged.

There may be many underlying issues at play, but these three actions can help leadership get beyond worker frustration and disegagement, and reignite your team's competitive fire. (Hint: communicate clearly and consistently, and make sure your actions match your words.)

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