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. For each employer, every effort is made to tailor the worker training system to accommodate the employer’s budget, job classifications (even unique training programs for each job classification in each department), business goals and manage the system through all types of change. Unlike some products or services that require the employer to change practices that work in order to utilize them, the PROTECH© system of managed human resource development is built around what is working for the employer, incorporating established information such as work processes and specifications, safety standards, quality standards, etc. This approach minimizes the need for the employer’s culture to drastically change what works for them, focusing instead on improvements in an area of weakness.
click here to expandA “Pay-for-Value” Worker Development Program – Fair to Management and Workers, and Effective Too!
by Stacey Lett, Director of Operations – Eastern U.S. – Proactive Technologies, Inc.
A conundrum for many employers – those who are allowed to consider the wage-value relationship in their business strategy – is “what is the right pay rate for work performed.” An often used strategy is to establish a competitive wage range for a job classification based on area surveys of similar job classification in the industry, adjusted for the uniqueness of work requirements for the employer’s job classification. Once hired, an employee progresses through the wage range measured by time in the job classification, in some cases with wage adjustments based on merit. While consistent, this approach may limit the employer to paying, in many cases, more for labor than the value derived. And here is why.
If an employer purchases a new, technologically advanced, piece of machinery that is advertised to increase the output of a process from 100 units per hour to 300 units per hour, the employer would be disappointed if it only received 150 units per hour. That employer would, most likely, challenge the manufacturer and perhaps request a refund if not satisfied.
click here to expandCustom Glass Solutions Holds Ceremony to Convey First Certificates to Employees Completing its Job Mastery Program
Proactive Technologies, Inc. – Staff
On August 31, 2021, Custom Glass Solutions, LLC. held its first ceremony to convey Certificates of Job Mastery and Task Mastery to its employees completing their job-based structured on-the-job training program today. Collectively, 156 employees received the portfolio at its Upper Sandusky and Fostoria, OH facilities.
In attendance were dignitaries from The Greater Ohio Workforce Board, Inc., OhioMeansJobs of Seneca and Wyandot Counties, and other workforce development agencies and educational institutions that have supported Custom Glass Solution’s program since it began in 2020: LuAnne Cooke, Lt. Governor’s Regional Representative for Northwest; Carol Kern; OhioMeansJobs Seneca County, Kathy Oliver, Seneca County Department of Job and Family Services Director, Greg Moon, Wyandot County Economic Development; Diana Jacoby: OhioMeansJobs Wyandot County, John Trott: Greater Ohio Workforce Board Executive Director; Rocky Rockhold, Greater Ohio Workforce Board Program Director; Kyle McColly, Mayor of Upper Sandusky, Jeff Long, Ohio Dept of Job and Family Services, Project Manager, Tonia Saunders, Assistant Director of Employment Services for the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services; Richard George, Tri-Rivers Career Center Adult Education Director– RAMTEC; Dean Prigelmeier, President of Proactive Technologies, Inc., Frank Gibson, Independent Workforce Development Consultant.
click here to expandConfusion 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 training methods” might produce thirty or forty informative, but confusing, charts. The search result is a mixture of domains, methods, philosophies – one seemingly in conflict with the other. A non-practitioner of workforce development strategies can gather from this search result alone why there is a perpetual state of confusion between even “experts,” marked by decades of employer and trainee disappointment in the lack of recognizable strategies and outcomes, which are often devoid of meaningful results.
Over the years, approaches and methods have evolved out of their ineffectiveness, many diverging from the basic principals of workforce development. Markets for products to address these approaches grew and well-funded marketing began to find unaware customers. The notion of “training” morphed into branded versions of “learning,” selected not so much on their basis in logic, but more on the lack of “smart” choices and how well the marketing effort worked.
click here to expandProactive Technologies Announces Summer “Turnkey Project” Discount Offer is Back – Expires September 30th, 2021
by Proactive Technologies, Inc. Staff
After a year-and-a-half long Covid-19 break, Proactive Technologies Inc. is once again extending to employers a generous discount offer of up to 30% from June 15 to September 30th, 2021 – so sign-up by then and lock in your rate.
This accelerated transfer of expertise™ approach is a tremendous offer without the discount, but with it can help any employer quickly and completely train the skilled workers they need AND realize an increase in worker capacity, work quantity/quality and compliance (ISO/TS/AS, engineering specifications and safety) while reducing the internal costs of training! New-hires and incumbent workers are driven to full job mastery and higher levels of return on worker investment (ROWI). The task-based, structured on-the-job training infrastructure is perfect for the apprenticeships; instead of marking the calendar for “time-in-job,” job-relevant tasks are mastered and documented.
click here to expandRead the full September, 2021 Proactive Technologies Report newsletter, including linked industry articles and online presentation schedules.
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