Keeping Employers Engaged in Regional Workforce Development Projects by Dean Prigelmeier, President of Proactive Technologies, Inc. Billions of dollars have been spent on workforce development projects funded by the state and federal governments in the last 20-30 years. However, from…

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…

Confusion Over What Constitutes “Training” is Stumbling Block to Effective Worker Development Strategies by Dean Prigelmeier, President of Proactive Technologies, Inc. For the anyone searching for information to help them choose a worker development strategy, a web search of “on-the-job…

Use Business Disruption Lulls to Develop Unused Worker Capacity: Build Organizational Value and Off-set Unexpected Costs by Dean Prigelmeier, President of Proactive Technologies, Inc. For those of us who remember the shear terror of recent disruptive events, we remember the…

Five Most Important Ways Structured On-the-Job Training Can Reclaim Wealth For an Employer by Dean Prigelmeier, President of Proactive Technologies, Inc. In a Proactive Technologies Report article entitled “10 Reasons Structured On-The-Job Training is a Vital and Necessary System for…

Certifying and Auditing Workers, Subcontractors by Dean Prigelmeier, President of Proactive Technologies, Inc. When auditors sample worker performance for compliance with process documents and quality standards, they observe the employee perform the steps of the defined process and watch for…

Appreciating the Value of Labor by Dean Prigelmeier, President of Proactive Technologies, Inc. For expanding and improving businesses that have the capital for the investment in new equipment or processes, attempting to become or remain competitive, the level of investment…

“Full Job Mastery” means “Maximum Worker Capacity” – A Verifiable Model for Measuring and Improving Worker Value While Transferring Valuable Expertise by Dean Prigelmeier, President of Proactive Technologies, Inc. It is no secret that with the traditional model of “vocational”…

Reluctant to Reshore Due to Apparent Shortage of Skilled Labor? Don’t Be  by Dean Prigelmeier, President of Proactive Technologies, Inc. These are uncertain times for some manufactures with supply chains that transcend borders to countries subject to punitive tariffs, and/or…

Labor Costs Expected to Increase, So Will Challenges to Worker Development by Dean Prigelmeier, President of Proactive Technologies, Inc. In an article by David McCann of CFO.com entitled, “Labor Costs Will Skyrocket Over the Next Decade”, the author cited new…