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Proactive Technologies Report™ – December, 2025

During WWII, US Transformed Manufacturing AND Its Workforce. “We Just Can’t Find the Skilled Workers We Need“ Wasn’t True Then Either and Not an Option. by Dean Prigelmeier, President of Proactive Technologies, Inc.® Suddenly faced with the tremendous challenges of…

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Proactive Technologies Report™ – November, 2025

Is an Apprenticeship Without Structured On-The-Job Training an Apprenticeship? by Dean Prigelmeier, President of Proactive Technologies, Inc.® Career and vocation-focused training is a pivotal point in every current and future worker’s life. This world is overwhelmed by forces that make…

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Proactive Technologies Report™ – October, 2025

It Seems Fear of New Private Equity Owners Cause Local Leadership to Forego Deliberate Worker Training by Dean Prigelmeier, President of Proactive Technologies, Inc.® Most employers I talk to say they know their informal on-the-job training programs cannot keep up…

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Proactive Technologies Report™ – September, 2025

Estimating the Costs Associated With Skipping Processed-Based Structured On-The-Job Training by Dean Prigelmeier, President of Proactive Technologies, Inc.® It should go without saying that if the employer has no deliberate strategy to train workers for the tasks they were hired…

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Proactive Technologies Report™ – August, 2025

Quality Policies and Process Sheets Are No Replacement for Worker Training by Dean Prigelmeier, President of Proactive Technologies, Inc.® A very common fallacy in business operations is that a rough description of a task that should be performed listed in…

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Proactive Technologies Report™ – July, 2025

Eroding Organizational Capacity: The “Unstructured, Haphazard and Ad Hoc Process-based Training Effect” by Dean Prigelmeier, President of Proactive Technologies, Inc.® If you work long enough for a variety of employers, there is one theme that seems to run common to…

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Proactive Technologies Report™ – June, 2025

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…

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Proactive Technologies Report™ – May, 2025

Contracting? Expanding? Maximizing? Protect and Grow Your Worker’s Cumulative, Valuable Process-Based Expertise by Dean Prigelmeier, President of Proactive Technologies, Inc.® Paraphrased many times and in many ways, the meaning is the same: “If you don’t know where you are going,…

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Proactive Technologies Report™ – April, 2025

Learning, Unfortunately, The Hard Way by Dean Prigelmeier, President of Proactive Technologies, Inc.® Employers are being tested these days on their ability to respond to a rapidly changing world and maintain operational continuity. While we should have been better prepared…

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Proactive Technologies Report™ – March, 2025

The Learning “Cost“ Versus Training “Investment“ Paradox by Dean Prigelmeier, President of Proactive Technologies, Inc.® This newsletter has written extensively about the inexplicable classification of the training a worker needs to succeed as a “cost“. It has never made much…

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