Could cultural engagement save engineering?

Engineering faces troubled times. Poor performance, skill shortages, high staff turnover and low morale all played a part in problems that have surfaced. But the real rate of change is dangerously slow, and civic handouts won’t support upturns in performance. How can a workplace drive itself forward from inertia to innovation? Could the future of industrial sectors be secured by employee engagement?

Think back to when you started your career. Were you making things happen? Did your decisions affect the path you took, and your ideas contribute to the course of your worldline? All you have made of your time here to date is the product of your imagination. You thought it and brought it to fruition.

When we harness the power of our thinking process, and review the conditioning we are all subject to, change tends to turn in our favour. To grow, we have to endure pain - to learn, we have to handle loss. At this point in our global development, most of us are feeling the pinch of both. But there is an opportunity here, one to be taken if an upturn in fortune is going to safely reach the engineering and manufacturing industries. An evolution waiting to happen that has infinite potential, yet somehow is still feared.