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Upcoming Training Courses

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Jan 2025

January 14, 2025 at 8:00 am - 12:00 pm

Teamwork is recognized as an important aspect of modern manufacturing. It is well known that people working together can accomplish more than individuals working in isolation. This session will provide practical methods to help teams become more effective and successful. Once an understanding of basic team dynamics is provided, participants will be able to recognize specific areas where teams need help and will also have sound methods to help teams improve. Participants will have the opportunity to select the key skills that they can practice to improve the performance of their teams.

January 15, 2025 at 8:00 am - 4:00 pm

Turn successful employees into homegrown leaders!

To ensure supervisors’ success, these employees will need new tools and skills to succeed as a leader within your organization. In this six-month, intensive course led by Purdue MEP experts, participants will learn and practice key skills every supervisor needs.

January 16, 2025 at 8:00 am - 4:00 pm

Waste stream mapping provides a VSM-like tool that will help companies identify waste stream opportunities focusing on energy, solid waste, water or hazardous wastes. Participants will learn how things currently operate, identify improvement areas, develop an implementation plan and finally make the change for an environmentally-preferred future state.

January 21, 2025 at 8:00 am - 4:00 pm

Learn How to Analyze Spend, Create a Category Playbook, and Launch Workshops to Improve Supplier Value

Strategic sourcing is a proactive, long-term approach to sourcing that aims at managing suppliers to create strong supplier relationships and provide value to your business.  It is a value-add, complementary approach to short-term, transactional-based buying.  Essential to managing suppliers strategically is a supply chain manager’s ability to develop a value-add plan to manage purchased material spend, communicate this plan to internal stakeholders for acceptance, and manage a supply base to improve performance. This sourcing approach aims to create sustainable growth for businesses.

January 29, 2025 at 8:00 am - 12:00 pm

Have your team in the same training at the same time, regardless of location!  This course will be an in-person workshop in Elkhart OR attend virtually.

Personal Accountability is more than most people realize, and it has tactical and practical methods as well as tangible results. It involves the evaluation of one’s actions and the results. It bridges discrepancies between actions and expectations. It involves taking not just responsibility, but ownership through choices and actions as well as removing roadblocks (faulty thinking and excuses).

January 30, 2025 at 8:00 am - 4:00 pm

This two-day workshop covers the foundational concepts of electricity, including terms, circuits, direct and alternating current. The course also includes numerous exercises and examples. Participants who complete this course can expect to gain knowledge and learn skills useful in an industrial environment.

Feb 2025

February 6, 2025 at 8:00 am - 4:00 pm

This two-day workshop covers the foundational concepts of electric motors and industrial transformers. The course also includes numerous exercises and examples. Participants who complete this course can expect to gain knowledge and learn skills useful in an industrial environment.

February 11, 2025 at 8:00 am - 12:00 pm

Modern manufacturing practices have required leaders to transition from a traditional style of top-down supervision into leaders who can lead and coach individuals and teams for improved performance. The essence of a successful leader is the person who can make sure that the work gets done while developing individuals and the teams at the same time.

Mar 2025

March 11, 2025 at 8:00 am - 12:00 pm

Estimates show the workforce now has more Gen Y and Gen Z than any other generation. On a daily basis, Baby Boomers are retiring by the thousands, which makes this statement even more so. As with each generation before them, Generations Y & Z have their own way of looking at things. What interests them, what motivates them, what drives them is different than Boomers and Gen X. This course helps leaders to understand those differences and how to best lead teams with Gen Y and Gen Z in them.

Positioning our community for growth! Some of the following services are provided through on-site training/analysis projects and workshops:

• Cyber Security Compliance
• Energy Efficiency & Sustainability
• Internal Auditor Training (IATF)
• Leadership Development
• Lean Manufacturing
• Lean Office
• Quality Improvement
• Quality Systems (ISO)
• Six Sigma
• Supply Chain Services
• Training Within Industry (TWI)

Next Level Jobs—part of Governor Holcomb’s Next Level Indiana agenda—aims to equip working-age Hoosiers and Indiana employers with the training and skills they need to succeed in the 21st Century economy. Developed in partnership by the Governor, the Indiana Commission for Higher Education, and the Indiana Department of Workforce Development with support from the Indiana General Assembly, Next Level Jobs features two targeted grant programs:

• Workforce Ready Grant program for working-age Hoosiers
• Employer Training Grant program for Indiana employers
• Rapid Recovery Program Expansion