Mentoring Background What organizations today aren't challenged to attract and retain skilled knowledge staff? The aging work force is retiring, and the challenging economic climate is intensifying competition for the remaining staff. This situation is causing a resurgence of people-focused programs to mitigate the erosion of knowledge. Not least among these is the "ancient" art of mentoring.
Just in time for 2011, here are the ten steps to follow when laying out your annual training plan. Keep in mind the underlying precepts for any plan: to have the right resources, at the right
...• Has operations / production determined a gap in performance that technical training can address?
Milford, CT - New Standard Institute of Milford, Connecticut, has been selected to receive a Connecticut Quality Improvement Award (CQIA) Innovation Prize in the category of Education and Training. Other award recipients in this category are Fairfield University, Norwalk Community College, Praxair, and the University of Hartford.
Edmonton, AB, Canada – POLARIS Laboratories™ is set to host its second set of oil and coolant analysis training classes October 26-28 at the Radisson Hotel in downtown Edmonton.
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MoistureFindIRTM is a network of infrared thermographers who provide moisture investigations.
The MoistureFindIRTM module training class will teach you how to provide comprehensive, unbiased moisture investigations for residential and commercial clients. These surveys can save your customers time and money because they can pinpoint problem areas by mapping moisture to its source - clearly revealing problem areas that need to be addressed, before they become more severe.
This article will provide documentation and helpful tips in regards to reading the digital edition of Uptime Magazine on the web at www.uptimemagazine.com or on your mobile device.
The International Society of Automation (ISA) is proud to announce the winners of the 2010 ISA Educational Foundation Scholarships. These scholarships are awarded to college and university students who demonstrate outstanding potential for long-range contribution to the fields of automation, instrumentation, and control. The scholarship awards support tuition and related expenses and research activities and initiatives.
Certified Maintenance & Reliability Professional (CMRP) candidates who are serving or have served in the military will be eligible to receive reimbursement for their exam fees.
A four-day Machine Vibration seminar with hands-on practical experience will be held on July 20 through 23 in San Jose, California, announced Penny Melrose, CEO of Datastick Systems, Inc. Seminar attendees can become certified as Level I Vibration Analysts by taking a test on the last day.
A company’s most competitive advantage is its employee’s ability to learn, grow and change so that they can meet the challenges of today’s dynamic marketplace. Top businesses understand this - they embrace learning and encourage continuous improvement. Join Tara Denton as she introduces ideas to motivate SME’s and leaders to transfer learning and inspire change in their organizations.
The Life Cycle Institute, Life Cycle Engineering’s (LCE) education group, has introduced a new resource, Introduction to High Impact Learning, for executives, managers and supervisors determined to improve the ROI of their training initiatives.
Managers constantly need to acquire new sets of skills to perform well. This is the reasoning behind TPC’s Maintenance Management (http://www.tpctraining.com/c-256-series-900-maintenance-management.aspx) for First-Line Supervisor’s Series. By gaining strong supervisory skills early on, new supervisors will have a head start on building the confidence they need to supervise and motivate their crews.
The Life Cycle Institute, Life Cycle Engineering’s education group, has added a new Train-the-Trainer (TTT) course to its list of high-impact learning offerings. The Train-the-Trainer course was developed by the Institute’s Learning Consultants to help organizations transform their subject matter experts into compelling facilitators of learning - trainers who engage people in learning and motivate individuals to change their behavior to achieve results.
Early in his change management career, Yogi Berra was advising a professional sports organization in New York on some of the finer points of managing change. At the executive briefing, Yogi
Step 2 - Identify the specific changes that are necessary to accomplish the business results identified in Step 1. Again, this list should be detailed and fairly extensive. Each item listed in Step 1 may have three to five or more specific changes. Examples would be 'perform root cause analysis on 100% of failures' or 'maintenance schedule compliance of X%.'
... - Identify the specific behaviors that are associated with the changes identified in Step 2. This will also include behavior changes for executives, managers, supervisors and employees. Again, there will be multiple behavior changes for each specific change identified in Step 2.
Any new training that occurs in your plant, video it, archive it for future reference and in the break room have a monitor to show these training videos of your equipment on a loop so the
CPMM Classes…a cost-effective way to learn how to do your job better—and make yourself more valuable to your employer. AFE is accepting registrations for the Certified Plant Maintenance Manager programs to be conducted virtually during the month of March 2010 through a series of eight interactive virtual seminars beginning March 2.
RSES has released the titles of six RSES Training Authority Seminars that are scheduled to take place covering the heating and cooling topics of efficiency, air flow, packaged systems, servicing and troubleshooting over the next three months.
In the current downturn, many have been doing less with less from a Maintenance and Reliability perspective. With cost reductions and in survival mode, many Maintenance groups have worked to get the last useable life from failing equipment; often deferring Maintenance for the short-term to help achieve those goals. Maintenance in the New Normal or the Reset economy will be more challenging than ever. Interestingly, businesses have gotten used tomaking do with less so don't look for the pendulum to swing the other way in the recovery. Furthermore, recognize the recovery may actually be a non-employment recovery which will be slow to replace jobs eliminated in the downturn.
The Reliabilityweb.com team is busy preparing for the Reliability 2.0 conference (www.maintenanceconference.com/reliability) so we thought it would be a good time to bring you some tips to get that might help you get the most out of this and other learning events.
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