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Operational Resilience Explained
America was built on manufacturing.And manufacturing was built on resilience.
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Skillsets + Mindsets = Frontline Employee Engagement
"I need to know I'm spending my time solving problems, not finding them."Wise words from Jonathan Keiper at MPP Innovation, who talks about the significance of engaging the...
Continue ReadingI Got 99 Problems, But Skills Ain’t One
How many of your frontline manufacturing workers are engaged, productive, and feel a sense of ownership in their process?
Continue ReadingKnowledge vs. Skills: Why Manufacturers Must Train For Both
Two terms manufacturing leaders use a lot are knowledge and skills. You’ve probably read material and even participated in training programs around topics like tribal...
Continue ReadingDriving Fear Off The Factory Floor
Did you know there are five fears that all human beings share? Below is the official list, according to the widely cited psychological research outlined in Karl Albrecht’s...
Continue ReadingWhat Manufacturing Leaders Need to Know About Workforce Empowerment
Empowered workers require enlightened leaders. Organizations can either act as an incentive (or an obstruction!) to the expression of a frontline worker's sense of ownership.
Continue ReadingFrontline Of The Future, Part 4
According to recent numbers from the Bureau of Labor, there are 12,559,000 manufacturing employees in the country. That’s eight percent of our nation’s employment.
Continue ReadingManufacturing Doesn’t Have A Hiring Problem, It Has A Retention Problem
Consider two pieces of recent industry data: 75% of the workforce will be millennials by 2025. (Forbes) Thousands of experienced workers are retiring daily. The Silver Tsunami
Continue ReadingHow to Deliver People Centric Manufacturing Training
“The supervisor is the customer of the training.” When Vitalii Potapenko of Solar Plastics first shared these words with us, we knew their company was doing something special...
Continue ReadingA New Model For Manufacturing Hiring
Constraint, Currency & Clarity What invention had the most profound impact on manufacturing hiring?
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