Jan 2025
Leadership Skills for Success for Frontline Leaders - 9 sessions - Jan. 15, Feb. 15, Feb. 26, Mar. 19, Apr. 9, Apr. 30, May 21, Jun. 11, Jul. 9
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.
Mastering Strategic Supplier Management - FREE COURSE
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.
Becoming a Better You Through Enhanced Personal Accountability - NEW HYBRID DELIVERY METHOD
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).
Introduction to Industrial Electrical Principles and Troubleshooting, Part 1 - January 30 and 31, 2025
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
Introduction to Industrial Electrical Principles and Troubleshooting, Part 2 - February 6 and 7, 2025
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.
Leading & Coaching for Superior Performance
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.
Introduction to Industrial Electrical Principles and Troubleshooting, Part 3 - February 13 and 14, 2025
This two-day workshop covers the basic industrial print reading, relay logic, and industrial controls and numbering systems. 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.
Employee Retention Strategies
Employee turnover, especially when it’s regrettable, can be highly disruptive to a team. While change is inevitable, the goal is to minimize its negative impact. In this program, you’ll learn key skills such as active listening, performance management, development planning, employee empowerment, and setting clear work expectations.
Inventory Management Playbook: Tools and Strategies for Success - FREE Class
Walk away from this workshop with practical tools and strategies to optimize inventory control, improve financial outcomes, and mitigate risks. Through hands-on activities, participants will learn key inventory management techniques, explore the use of technology and inventory management systems, and gain insights into financial planning related to inventory.
Mar 2025
Leading Gen Y & Z
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.
