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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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    PTI1007 - Structured On-the-Job Training Supports ISO/AS/IATF Process Training Requirement Compliance

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    2026-11-05

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    (Mountain Time) The philosophy behind, and development/implementation of, structured on-the-job training; how any employer can benefit from the PROTECH©® system of managed human resource development™ in more that just the training area; building related technical instruction/structured on-the-job training programs and supporting them for employers across all industries. ISO/AS/IATF, Nadacp and similar quality programs have a requirement that: standardize work processes guide quality, auditable task performance; training matches the process; training is documented for each worker; and a system is in place to ensure all are up to date and in sync. This program supports ISO/AS/IATF and Nadcap compliance requirements for “knowledge(expertise)” capture. In addition to hiring, structured on-the-job training and performance evaluation instruments, PROTECH produces reports such as Technical Document (best practice for each task), Qualification/ Certification Checklists and more. One-revision updates all materials! Efforts like Lean, Kaisen, continuous improvement strategies all can render a lesser model obsolete and non-compliant in a few months. This model provides the lacking support needed to employers who want to easily and cost-effectively establish and maintain compliance. Approx. 45 minutes


    PTI1008 - Preparing Workers for Change and Growth: Using Lulls to Increase Your Worker's Capacity and ROI

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    (Mountain Time) The philosophy behind, and development/implementation of, structured on-the-job training; how any employer can benefit from the PROTECH©® system of managed human resource development™ in more than just the training area; building related technical instruction/structured on-the-job training programs and supporting them for employers across all industries. This approach uses the “accelerated transfer of expertise system™” to quickly and completely train each incumbent worker to full job mastery. When change settles and growth returns, new-hires can be quickly developed to full job mastery to support expansion and cross-training of each worker conducted and controlled.  Program supports ISO/AS/IATF and Nadcap compliance requirements for “knowledge(expertise)” capture, and process-based training and record keeping.  Approx. 45 minutes


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    The Crash of 2008, the Covid-19 Pandemic and mergers/acquisitions have caused disruptions to business strategies and training project support. During these disruptions, several Proactive Technologies projects were set-up for employers and ready to implement, or implementation started but paused temporarily, some indefinitely, as internal project knowledge and advocacy dissipated. Employee and management contacts were either laid-off, reassigned or retired. The significant value of what was established remains and Proactive Technologies saved each company’s data set up that point. Here is a chance to discover what was established, where we left off and what it would take to restart the program. The philosophy behind, and development/implementation of, structured on-the-job training; the many benefits from the PROTECH©® system of managed human resource development™ in more than just the training area; examples of projects with manufacturing and manufacturing support companies (aerospace, Tier-1 and 2 automobile suppliers, chemical companies, facilities maintenance companies, rubber/polymer manufacturers); compliance support provided by the system for ISO/AS/IATF and Nadcap quality programs as well as OSHA safety requirements; and how many structured on-the-job training programs were, or can be, unregistered apprenticeships or registered as apprenticeships.

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