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Every career development conversation, whether with a student figuring out their first steps or an adult client navigating a change, rests on one thing before anything else: trust. Before a client can explore their strengths, name their values, or make a real decision about their future, they need to feel safe enough to be honest, with you and with themselves. That safety does not happen by accident. It is built, conversation by conversation, through what we call the helping relationship. The...

September is National Workforce Development Month, which gives us permission to pause and ask a question I think about constantly: where is your next generation of talent actually coming from? If your answer is "we'll figure it out when we post the job," I understand the instinct. But consider this: by the time a role opens, you're competing for the same shrinking pool of candidates as every other employer in your region. The businesses I see building real, lasting talent pipelines start...