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The Growing Skills Gap & How Vocational Training Can Help to Shrink It

GlobalTranz

More manufacturers are turning toward vocational training and apprenticeship programs to help close the skills gap. According to The Huffington Pos t, a wide variety of apprenticeship programs focus on construction and manufacturing, creating a largely untapped resource of new skilled labor that manufacturers could easily access.

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Creative Safety Supply: Kaizen Training and Research Page

The Lean Thinker

With that out of the way, I found their Kaizen Training and Research Page interesting enough to go through it here and comment on what I see. It may well be that that confusion originates from the same term having similar but different definitions depending on the context. What, exactly, is “PDCA?”.

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Breakbulk Americas with Jeff Tucker

The Logistics of Logistics

Ratzenberger has become Hollywood’s most outspoken advocate for manufacturing, skilled labor and the companies that are the foundation of our great country. According to the FreightWaves, The basic definition of breakbulk is any individual piece of cargo that does not fit into a container and is not carried in bulk.

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TWI: Is it Time to Rethink Job Relations?

The Lean Thinker

Background TWI stands for Training Within Industry, a program developed during WWII by the U.S. Technicians, often very technically skilled, but inexperienced in leading people, were put into supervisory positions. Job Methods, teaching the skill of analyzing work with an eye to improve efficiency. War Manpower Commission.

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HBR: Managers Think They’re Good At Coaching. They’re Not.

The Lean Thinker

As an alternative, they offer up a definition of coaching by Sir John Whitmore: “unlocking a person’s potential to maximize their own performance. Milner and Milner conclude with this take-away: coaching is a skill that needs to be learned and honed over time. The very definition of kata implies a structure. Learning to Coach.

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Overcoming the Skills Gap in Automotive Engineering

GlobalTranz

How can existing automotive manufacturers bridge the skills gap in automotive engineering between their current manufacturing techniques and these new invaluable skills? A Lack of Skilled Hands. This new technology-heavy world is lacking only one thing — the skilled hands that are needed to keep the technology running.

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Understanding Your Sales Personality with Ryan Schreiber and Ann Holm

The Logistics of Logistics

Ryan is a skilled technologist and strategist who has helped transform many leading transportation and logistics companies. CarrierDirect advises clients on the elements of their business most vital to success: strategy, organizational structure, compensation, technology, training, recruiting, workflows, processes, and more.