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Proactive Technologies Report – March, 2022

Recent Supply Chain Disruptions: Re-shoring Work to a Disrupted Workforce the Next Challenge, but Surmountable by Dean Prigelmeier, President of Proactive Technologies, Inc. No doubt about it, with the Crash of 2008 and the Covid-19 Crisis of 2020 most businesses

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Proactive Technologies Report – February, 2022

Technique is Important to Successful Task-based Training by Dean Prigelmeier, President of Proactive Technologies, Inc. Generally speaking, the most prevalent form of worker training – for any job classification, any industry – is informal, unstructured on-the-job training. That unmeasurable, unimprovable

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Proactive Technologies Report – January, 2022

Preparing for the New Workforce Reality by Dean Prigelmeier, President of Proactive Technologies, Inc. My experience in helping employers with their worker development programs for decades has led me to make a generalization that I believe to be true. Many

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Proactive Technologies Report – December, 2021

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

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Proactive Technologies Report – November, 2021

Understanding the Important Difference Between Classroom, Online and On-The-Job Training by Dean Prigelmeier, President of Proactive Technologies, Inc. In a past issue of Proactive Technologies Report article entitled, “Thirteen Good Reasons Why Structured On-The-Job Training Should Be Part of Your

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Proactive Technologies Report – October, 2021

Balancing the Need to Raise Wages to be Competitive With Corresponding Worker Value by Dean Prigelmeier, President of Proactive Technologies, Inc. It is said employers are having a hard time finding workers. It may be due to some workers having

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Proactive Technologies Report – September, 2021

A Simple, Low-investment Solution to Closing Skill Gaps; New-Hires and Incumbents by Dean Prigelmeier, President of Proactive Technologies, Inc. Proactive Technologies, Inc. has worked with many employers over the years, establishing and technically supporting cost-effective, task-based structured on-the-job training programs.

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Proactive Technologies Report – August, 2021

Apprenticeships That Make Money? Not as Impossible as it Seems (part 2 of 2) – Setting Up an Apprenticeship Center by Dean Prigelmeier, President of Proactive Technologies, Inc. In the first part of a two-part article entitled “Apprenticeships That Make

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Proactive Technologies Report – July, 2021

Apprenticeships That Make Money? Not As Impossible as it Seems-Part 1 of 2 by Dean Prigelmeier, President of Proactive Technologies, Inc. I recently had dinner with a friend of many years, Günther Hauser, in his hometown of Neckarsulm Germany. I

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Proactive Technologies Report – June, 2021

The Worker Development Puzzle… For Many by Dean Prigelmeier, President of Proactive Technologies, Inc. After many years of setting up and providing technical support for employer-based structured on the job training programs, I can say with confidence that most, if

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