Nicole Trigg was my direct supervisor for nearly four years at the Columbia Valley Pioneer. She consistently displayed an outstanding ability to juggle multiple projects on tight deadlines, in demanding and frequently stressful circumstances, all to a remarkable level of excellence. A key part of Nicole’s success during this period (and throughout the four years I worked for her) was her incisive human resource and staff management. Faced with considerable staffing constraints, Nicole came up with innovative solutions. She brought out the best in those she managed — on multiple occasions she coached staff to significantly better performances, redeployed them to different tasks better suited to their skills, and smoothly mitigated potential conflicts. Nicole was particularly good at helping her staff achieve a reasonable work-life balance in an industry notoriously bad in this regard, resulting in better staff retention, and a workplace that was far happier and much more motivated than average.



Steve Hubrecht, M.J., Senior Reporter