Description: 

In this workshop you will learn the concepts of continuous improvement and the methods used to identify and prioritize problem areas. You will use some of the basic tools used to benchmark, develop and implement quality and productivity improvements.

Included will be in class exercise and how to integrate a Continuous Improvement Process in your company.

 Some topics include:

• Establishing a baseline
• Identifying and prioritizing problems
• Application of Qualitative and Quantitative Analytical Tools
• Five Step Continuous Improvement Cycle, the Deming cycle, Basic Lean Principles and elements of Six Sigma

Description: 

The Council of Industry offers this course to provide frontline supervisors with Environmental, Health and Safety (EHS) essentials applicable at most manufacturing operations. This core course reviews safety and environmental regulations which all managers should understand to better monitor and manage facility risk, hazards, and environmental and safety obligations.  The one-day session reviews the following critical path EHS topics:

• Accident reporting and associated record-keeping
• Global harmonization and SDS availability
• Basic Personal Protective Equipment: feet, ears, eyes, breathing, and associated medical monitoring
• Industrial hygiene including chemical sampling, exposure thresholds, dosimeter studies (noise), and ergonomics
• Forklift awareness and training
• Fire prevention plans, facility safety plans, Job Safety Analysis (JSA), emergency planning
• Machine and electrical safety/Lock-out-Tag-out (LOTO)
• Confined space and Elevated work (fall protection/scaffold)
• Chemical management & waste storage, chemical and petroleum tanks, and the role of environmental permits

Description: 

This class takes managers and supervisors on a two-day journey that begins with a discussion of great leaders and the characteristics they demonstrate. This discussion sets the stage for a program that allows participants to identify their own individual style and gain tools and techniques to make their personal strengths most effective. Attendees complete the Everything DiSC Workplace Profile, a nonjudgmental personality tool for understanding their behaviors in the workplace. Leaders use this knowledge to understand behavior across four primary dimensions. DiSC Profile information creates a baseline for exploration of skills and techniques to enhance leadership effectiveness including:

• Individual approaches in response to different workplace styles.
• Best practices for working with particular styles.
• Tools for identifying styles in others.
• Balancing approaches to build effective workplace relationships.
• Emotional intelligence and communicating intentions.
• The essentials for establishing SMART goals.
• Building a team through targeted recruitment and behavioral interviewing.

Description: 

This class identifies and explains key legal issues that a manager may have to address in the workplace today. It helps current and future managers realize their responsibility to understand and enforce the employment laws that speak to these issues which can minimize their chances of ending up in court.

This course will cover:

• Employers’ rights and obligations
• Employment laws
• Regulations governing business
• Hiring
• Performance & discipline issues
• Affirmative action.

Description: 

Who should attend:

• Supervisors  •  Team Leaders   •   Lead People  •    Department Heads
• Anyone with budget or financial decision making responsibility

 Think like a CFO !

Should we add another shift?  Can we afford that new machine?  How much should we charge our best  customer for the new widget we are making?  What is the cost of scrap and wasted set-up time?  To know the answers to these and  countless other questions you need to be able to think like a Chief Financial Officer (CFO).

 Let’s face it, manufacturers are in business to make money. Through case studies and examples participants will learn how a manufacturer can use financial ratios and other measures of financial performance to monitor its  operations, effectively reduce risk, and maximize return. Topics of discussion will include understanding basic financial statements such as the balance sheet and income statement. We will also learn key performance ratios and how to apply them.

Description: 

This class combines two topics for an interesting perspective on leadership and impact in the workplace; employee motivation and discipline. The foundation for effective supervisory relationships is understanding what motivates employees. Too often managers give up and say, “They just aren’t motivated.” The next common steps are to tolerate a difficult situation or seek ways to get the employee fired, or at least transferred.

Beginning with an understanding of motivation leaders can identify motivators and work to eliminate those things that get in the way; potential de-motivators. Understanding motivation and building a strong relationship makes coaching conversations easier and more successful. Using a framework for coaching, the GROW Model, coaching conversations will be more consistently on target. Coaching is an essential tool but when applied correctly and results don’t change, or when serious rule infractions occur, managers and supervisors need to go to the next step of disciplinary action. Participants leave the session with core skills and techniques to enhance leadership effectiveness.

Description: 

In today’s fast-paced business climate, knowing how to solve problems and make decisions efficiently and effectively is highly important. There are many ways to go about solving a problem or making a decision, but if people in an organization can learn common strategies and procedures for problem solving and decision-making, then they can learn to work together collaboratively in facing the challenges of their organization.

This class will cover:

• Stating the problem accurately •  Controlled brainstorming   •  Analyzing the data   •  Pareto Analysis

Each team gathers data on their defined problem from step 4 above. Construct a Pareto Chart using the collected data and then will present to class the results of the Pareto analysis. There will be discussion on:

• How do we get to the solution phase?

              * PPA Potential Problem Analysis

              * Business case analysis

              * Solution matrix

• Testing the solution 

• Implementation and Process change

              * Other problem solving tools SPC

              * Empowered employee