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Quality Verbal Communications
Read more: Quality Verbal CommunicationsSoft skills are important skills that improve our ability to work with others. Soft skills are important skills that improve our ability to work with others, and good soft skills help us build and maintain relationships at work and in our personal lives. Verbal communication is a critical soft skill. It includes one-on-one discussions, small…
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GES Announces Scholarship Winners 2025-26
Read more: GES Announces Scholarship Winners 2025-26GES is pleased to announce the CSR Program scholarship recipients for the 2025-26 academic year. The CSR program was created to reward academic excellence and social responsibility within the GES community. Once again we received applications from many talented individuals. Three recipients will each be awarded a $2,000 scholarship to support their ongoing academic studies.…
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Neat as a Bow (Tie)
Read more: Neat as a Bow (Tie)Over the past 2.5 years, GES’ own Rich Evans, PE has had the pleasure of working on the Sustainable Remediation Forum (SuRF) Environmental Justice initiative steering committee with a diverse group of environmental professionals. The steering committee is led by Melvin Stroble (EA Engineering, Science, and Technology, Inc.). Melvin has been a motivational leader for…
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GES Receives 2024 EBJ Business Achievement Award
Read more: GES Receives 2024 EBJ Business Achievement AwardSan Diego, Calif. (February 2025) —Environmental Business Journal®* (EBJ), an independent business research publication that has provided strategic market intelligence to the environmental industry* since 1988, has honored Groundwater and Environmental Services, Inc. (GES) with a Project Merit Business Achievement Award. “In another year of strong growth for the environmental industry in 2024, a number of…
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Quality Soft Skills
Read more: Quality Soft SkillsDuring 2024, we connected soft skills to Quality. The term “soft skills” was coined by the U.S. Army in the late 1960s to refer to any skill that does not employ the use of machinery. Soft skills are important skills that improve our ability to work with others. Good soft skills help us build and…
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1440 Minutes
Read more: 1440 MinutesMinutes in a day. 1440. That’s how much time you have every day. You’ve likely heard this number applied to time management and productivity. Those concepts express the limitations of time and the importance of what you choose to do with each minute; they do not describe the Quality of how you use your minutes.…
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Simply Quality
Read more: Simply QualityAdding steps to a process or features to a product rarely improves Quality. All too often, a well-intentioned addition to something adversely affects its Quality. When seeking to improve Quality, take a different pa\th – what can be removed to improve Quality? Simplification declutters how we work and what we produce through our work.…
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GES Announces Scholarship Winners 2024-25
Read more: GES Announces Scholarship Winners 2024-25GES is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2020-21 Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Scholarship. GES’ CSR scholarship program was established in 2007 with the goal of rewarding the outstanding academic achievements and community service displayed by children of GES employees across the company. Each year a committee comprised of GES employees review and scores the student…
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EPA Finalizes Drinking Water Standards for PFAS
Read more: EPA Finalizes Drinking Water Standards for PFASClick HERE to contact GES for assistance with PFAS issues.