Thinking Holistically About Worker Development by Dean Prigelmeier, President of Proactive Technologies, Inc. Every potential worker and incumbent worker possess enormous value, waiting to be first developed then realized. Too often the opportunity is lost at development, and the value…

Economic Development Opportunities – An Important Incentive in Attracting Companies to Your Region by Dean Prigelmeier, President of Proactive Technologies, Inc. When organizations try to create new jobs in their area – working with companies that are considering moving to,…

Even the Best Written Work Instruction Is No Replacement for Structured On-the-Job Training by Dean Prigelmeier, President of Proactive Technologies, Inc. If you’ve ever had the opportunity to assemble a toy or piece of furniture by the included instructions, you’ll…

From Innovation to Implementation – Success Depends on Preparedness of Those Executing by Dean Prigelmeier, President of Proactive Technologies, Inc. How often does a product or service go straight from research and development to service implementation or product production? A…

Tracking Documented Worker Capacity and Value Growth by Dean Prigelmeier, President of Proactive Technologies, Inc. It is difficult for any operations manager to justify investments in worker training to the accounting manager. Without empirical evidence, the institutionalized belief by accountants…

We Have Enough Evidence: Without Employer-Based Structured OJT, Worker Development Falls Way Short by Dean Prigelmeier, President of Proactive Technologies, Inc. As a nation, we have become accustomed to kicking the can down the road. Maybe not deliberately, we appear…

The Good News, Enormous Employer Wealth is Waiting to be Harvested by Dean Prigelmeier, President of Proactive Technologies, Inc. The good news for employers is that there is a tremendous amount of wealth yet to be harvested under the very…

A Training Approach That Should Make the Bean Counters Happy by Dean Prigelmeier, President of Proactive Technologies, Inc. Whether out of indifference or lack of awareness, it is an unspoken truth that more and more employers have been neglecting their…

Is “Better Marketing” the Solution to Employer’s Apathy Toward Worker Training? by Dean Prigelmeier, President of Proactive Technologies, Inc. Sometimes taking marketing efforts and spending up a notch is the answer to sagging sales. Sometimes it is just more money…

You’ve Cut the Training Budget, Then Cut Employees…Now What? By Dean Prigelmeier, President of Proactive Technologies, Inc. Layoffs are a traditional business solution to cutting costs in response to a softening of the market or unexpected erosion of the underlying…