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Proactive Technologies Report – August, 2019

Thirteen Good Reasons Why Structured On-The-Job Training Should be Part of Your Business Strategy by Dean Prigelmeier, President of Proactive Technologies, Inc. Many articles have appeared in the Proactive Technologies Report covering how Proactive Technologies’  PROTECH© System of managed human resource development can address

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Proactive Technologies Report – July, 2019

Do U.S. Productivity Measures Measure Productivity? by Dean Prigelmeier, President of Proactive Technologies, Inc. A disturbing emerging trend, particularly in the last three decades, concerns the accuracy and quality of the economic statistics reported to the public. You probably have

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Proactive Technologies Report – June, 2019

The US is Ranked 12th in Talent, Topped By Those Pesky Socialist Countries. What’s  Gone Wrong? by Dean Prigelmeier, President of Proactive Technologies, Inc. In an IndustryWeek article entitled, “Top 10 Countries For Talent,” it was reported that the IMB

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Proactive Technologies Report – May, 2019

The Connection Between Worker Capacity, Organizational Capacity and Output by Dean Prigelmeier, President of Proactive Technologies, Inc. The term “capacity” has many meanings. The business dictionary defines capacity for different applications, but generally defines it as “specific ability of an

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Proactive Technologies Report – April, 2019

More Education Won’t Fix Flat or Declining Wages, But Appropriate Compensation and Stable Job Markets Can Make College Worth It by Dean Prigelmeier, President of Proactive Technologies, Inc. Having several degrees myself, I can say that I am a strong

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Proactive Technologies Report – March, 2019

Eight Scenarios That Would Make You Wish You Had a Structured OJT System by Dean Prigelmeier, President of Proactive Technologies, Inc. I think one can confidently say that most employer’s focus on training the workers they need – to perform

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Proactive Technologies Report – February, 2019

Is it Possible to Close the “Skills Gap” if Focused on the Symptom, Not The Cause? by Dean Prigelmeier, President of Proactive Technologies, Inc. There is nothing like the futility of trying to solve a specificproblem with a general solution…or treating the symptoms

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Proactive Technologies Report – January, 2019

Yet Another Reason Structured On-The-Job Training Should Be Part of Any Company’s Business Model – New ISO 30414 Standards for Human Capital Metrics by Dean Prigelmeier, President of Proactive Technologies, Inc. A new reason has come to town to support

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Proactive Technologies Report – December, 2018

Is It Possible To Improve Worker Performance Without Documented Task Mastery? by Dean Prigelmeier, President of Proactive Technologies, Inc. W. Edwards Deming said, “We are being ruined by the best efforts of people who are doing the wrong thing.”  The

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Proactive Technologies Report – November, 2018

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

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