Workforce Engagement and Performance

"I can heartily recommend the work of Haigler Enterprises’ principals, Karl Haigler and Rae Nelson, based on their contributions to various initiatives during my tenure at Family Dollar Stores. I counted on Haigler Enterprises to support my staff in a number of ways, from developing legally-defensible job descriptions to developing competency models that we used in defining management level positions across the company. In addition, Haigler Enterprises helped our stores develop partnerships with workforce development and community-based agencies in a number of critical urban markets, partnerships that helped us staff management ranks more effectively and resulted in high-quality management training curriculum. I could always count on Karl’s and Rae’s professionalism in working with company senior managers, which brought credit to the Human Resources function and its contribution to Family Dollar’s growth from 3,100 to 6,500 stores during the time we worked together. I was proud of our accomplishments and to have them as part of the HR team."

"It is my pleasure to give my highest recommendation to Karl Haigler and Rae Nelson for their service to the college through the Center for Business & Industry. Since 1991, the CBI has helped local business, industry and government entities become more productive and profitable by providing customized training, consulting and technical assistance. In 1996, we conducted a national search to help us improve and expand services to our customers. That search led us to Haigler Enterprises. Since that time Karl and Rae have contributed to several major state-wide projects and numerous local projects. In 2008, the CBI offered a series of employee engagement workshops. Because of their expertise and experience, Haigler Enterprises was chosen to lead this effort. As a result, the CBI, leveraging the expertise of Haigler Enterprises, has contracted to provide continuing services to several participating companies. Over the past 14 years, Karl and Rae have met or exceeded my requirements on every occasion."

"It is my pleasure to endorse Karl Haigler and Rae Nelson of Haigler Enterprises. When I was Vice President, Staffing & Development at Beam Global Spirits & Wine, Inc., I hired Karl and Rae as consultants to lead a competency modeling project. Their ability to work across two continents and navigate diverse cultures exceeded our expectations. Their efforts allowed us to align marketing competencies with our global strategies and identify specific competencies required to perform at the novice, intermediate and master levels - a remarkable accomplishment by any measure"

"Karl Haigler had lead responsibility in a Texas Workforce Commission project in which I collaborated. His thought leadership, strategic, innovative, and forward-looking approach led to the creation of the Texas Adult Education and Literacy Standards 2.0, which set a new benchmark in the adult education field by allowing teachers to align their curricular objectives to the job skill requirements of Texas industry. He was highly skilled at bringing together the voices of employers and educators in the use of data from the U.S. Department of Labor Occupational Network (O*NET; i.e., a database used by employers and educators to benchmark job requirements against data derived from job analyses) to meaningfully bridge insights from both employers and educators in the development of the oft cited Standards 2.0 resource. Without hesitation, I can give Karl Haigler my highest recommendation to serve as consultant, strategic leader, and thought partner in workforce development projects."

"I had the opportunity to work with Karl Haigler and Rae Nelson when they were contracted by Literacy Texas in 2017 to manage the Texas Adult Education Content Standards initiative. It is the rare occasion in the field of adult education when one gets to work with consultants that are as knowledgeable of education, literacy, and language as they are of the needs of industry. They did a superb job of managing the project. One of the industry representatives said the project was the “first time educators actually listen to industry and sit down to learn from us rather than tell us what we need.”

"My biggest debt of gratitude goes to Rae Nelson and Karl Haigler, the brilliant management consulting team of Haigler Enterprises who poured countless hours of research, interviews, and sweat into this project. There’s no way this book would have happened without Karl and Rae, and I am truly blessed that they chose to devote their undying passion for workforce development to this project."