Recently, the TRSA Board of Directors participated in a facilitated strategic planning session to identify the industry’s most important issues or challenges. The operational concerns they identified mirrored those of their customers including:
 

1. Growth
    
2. Regulation and Compliance
    
3. Access to skilled labor (sales, technical)
    
4. Access to low-skilled/unskilled labor (line, plant)
    
5. Leadership/Succession planning (supervisors, managers, executives, ownership)

 
The first two challenges—growth and regulatory compliance—depend on many internal and external factors such as the economy, competition, employment, politics and more, including the impact of the next three ...