Archive for April, 2010

Always Learning

Tuesday, April 27th, 2010

The other day at Starbucks, I overheard a man ranting to his friend about having to attend a training class at his new company. He didn’t understand why this was being required of him since he has over six years experience in the field. As I waited in line for my coffee, his friend reminded him that he shouldn’t be so sure that he already knows everything and he could actually learn something new. This conversation reminded me that regardless of the industry providing training to experienced employees is still important. It can help them to learn about the people, their work responsibilities and familiarizes them with how things are done at the company.

Although not all positions in an organization require a fresher course. Some positions, especially certain jobs in a manufacturing industry, demand experienced hires to learn how that company operates and their work practices. Many newly hired manufacturing employees will prefer to start right away because they feel their experience and knowledge are sufficient to do the job. But every company as its own set of standard practices that determines how employee should do their job.

Not adopting to a company’s style of work can lead to conflicts and lack of motivation causing the employee’s performance to suffer. It’s always good to have a manufacturing training program in place that orientates the new employees with the work practices, the equipment and the operation procedures. Despite having the required experience, training employees for their new position will help them to perform better in their new role.

ITC Learning offers flexible manufacturing training classes that can be done via web, DVD/Video or CD-ROM. In addition, we can custom design a class to fit the company’s training needs. With training classes in place, your company can continue to increase efficiency, reduce employee turnover and encourage employees to utilize their advance technical knowledge to increase productivity.

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Training For Excellence

Monday, April 12th, 2010

There are so many parallels to achieving excellence in sports and in an organization’s engineering and maintenance efforts; however, at their core, all successful organizations have at their foundation a strong emphasis on a continuing training program.  When we are watching a sporting event, and we are mesmerized by a phenomenal act by an athlete, it is so easy not to realize that what we witnessed, was only possible through the hard work and consistent practice put in by that athlete, not just leading up to the game, but all the time.  The same is true with the performance of a sound engineering program.  In order for equipment within a facility, be it as complex as nuclear power plant or within a warehousing operation, the proper functionality of the operating equipment is firmly dependent upon a solid continuous training program within their engineering and maintenance department.

With today’s economic backdrop, we all are doing what we can to minimize costs and to be as efficient as possible.  With the incorporation of ITC’s education and training platforms, into your training program, or by basing a new program on ITC’s training curriculum’s, you can  easily, affordably, and effectively put a sound and sustainable continuous training program in place.  ITC provides flexible, on demand training for individuals or teams.  All training modules inherently are designed to reinforce the fundamentals needed to be exercised in the field, and have knowledge assessment capabilities built in. ITC has various e-learning modules, that are performance based, and utilize interactive knowledge assessments to reinforce what knowlwdge your personnel need to take with them when they are on the job.  With the incorporation of an ITC based training program, your organization can be better prepared and poised to mesmerize your clients with your day to day operations.

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