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2008 ELECTIVE COURSES
TIER II
2008 Worksite Training Skills:
Dates: Wednesday, May 7, 2008
Time: 9:00am - 4:30pm
Location: Dutchess Community College, Bowne Hall, Poughkeepsie, NY
Instructor: John Mattoon
Description: The Council of Industry will offer this informative course that will provide participants with useful skills and materials for training delivery including: training assessment, planning and design, instructional strategies and evaluation, conducting group and individual instruction, monitoring follow up and reinforcement of training.
2008 Introduction to Lean Manufacturing:
Dates: Thursday, March 13, 2008
Time: 8:30am - 4:30pm
Location: Dutchess Community College, Bowne Hall, Poughkeepsie, NY
Instructor: Vincenzo Buonomo, Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT)
Description: In this session, participants will be exposed to a braod list of Lean tools and definitions that will be covered in subsequent sessions. The session, compares traditional/batch manufacturing with Lean manufacturing. On a quick overview basis, the following Lean tools will be briefly defined and discussed: Value Stream Mapping (VSM); 5-S, Visual Controls, and Gemba; Standard Work; Takt; Kanban, Pull Systems, and Supermarkets; Line and Cell Design; Single Minute Exchange of Dies (SMED); Total Productive Maintenance (TPM); Kaizen Event Training; Production Preparation Process (3-P); Impact and Culture Change; and Assessment Tools.
2008 Best Practices & Continuous Improvement:
Dates: Wednesday, May 21, 2008
Time: 9:00am - 4:30pm
Location: Dutchess Community College, Bowne Hall, Poughkeepsie, NY
Instructor: John Mattoon
Description: The Council of Industry will offer this informative course that will provide participants with proven techniques to improve operations for better efficiently within their organization. Topics to be addressed are: Identification of Critical Tasks, Definition of Best Practices and Processes, Creating Task Plans With Teams, Implementing Change Through the Work Force and Auditing Performance and Results.
2008 Managing Diversity:
Dates: Wednesday, May 28, 2008
Time: 9:00am - 4:30pm
Location: Dutchess Community College, Bowne Hall, Poughkeepsie, NY
Instructor: Ellen Messer
Description: This course is for managers who direct a culturally diverse staff or serve a diverse customer base. Training covers communicating effectively with diverse audiences and managing cross cultural issues such as concepts of time (deadlins, schedules, meetings), power (levels of formality, negotiations), and communication styles (direct v, indirect). Learn to probe and ask exploring questions ti gauge comprehension. Develop the intercultural competencies needed to fruitfully manage diversity.
