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…

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…

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…

When Wages Rise for Skilled Labor, Can Your Firm Maximize Worker Value and Minimize Investment? by Dean Prigelmeier, President of Proactive Technologies, Inc. Ideally, wages rise for most job classifications when conditions are right to match the rising cost of…

The US Workforce Competitive Advantage Has Declined For Decades – Not for Lack of Resources, Effort or Base Talent, But For Strategy by Dean Prigelmeier, President of Proactive Technologies, Inc. The United States has, by objective measures, not done a…

Labor Costs Expected to Increase, So Will Challenges to Developing Workers by Dean Prigelmeier, President of Proactive Technologies, Inc. In an article by David McCann of CFO.comentitled, “Labor Costs Will Skyrocket Over the Next Decade”, the author cited new research from…

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…

Every Work Task Is A Micro Unit; Everything About the Task Should Be Trained At Same Time For Maximum Efficiency and Effectiveness by Dean Prigelmeier, President of Proactive Technologies, Inc. In an article appearing in EHS Today entitled, “Microlearning’s Big…

The Accelerated the Transfer of Expertise™ by Dean Prigelmeier, President of Proactive Technologies, Inc. The American Heritage Dictionary defines expertise as, “specialized knowledge or skill; see expert.” Expert is defined as, “Having or demonstrating great skill, dexterity or knowledge as…

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…