CMTC Partners with Engage Forward to Host Webinar Featuring Essential Workforce Skills in Response to COVID-19
Job Instruction During COVID-19 introduced you to a Four-Step pattern that was developed in WWII to quickly develop a new manufacturing workforce to support the warfighters by building critical materials and supplies. After the war, these patterns were introduced around the world and are still in wide use today. The Toyota Production System approach of […]
KATA TO GO!
The GO Space is a co-working space located in beautiful in San Dimas, CA.Co-founding partners Sarah and Stacy are working with Engage Forward to apply the IMPROVEMENT KATA pattern to align and serve business opportunities. STEP 1: UNDERSTAND THE DIRECTION Defining the condition that will keep our activities aligned with our purpose and values. Today […]
Discussing Workforce Development on “Shifting Gears”
CMTC hosts Engage Forward’s founder Lisa Rawcliffe on “Shifting Gears” a podcast exploring issues facing manufacturing.
Tech San Diego Manufacturing Operations Roundtable with Engage Forward
Lisa Rawcliffe joins Tech San Diego to discuss how to better train and develop your front line leadership that addresses common workforce challenges.
Strengthening a Machinist Training Program Through TWI Job Instruction
Develop skills of instructing to strengthen your training programs. A group of experienced Lead Machinists in San Bernardino County, CA completed the Training Within Industry Job Instruction: a pattern that trains employees how to do a job safely, correctly and conscientiously. Participants apply a method and standard way for teaching others to develop technical skills. […]
Power Skills Foundation for STEM Careers
Engage Forward was pleased to present the New World of Work 21st Century Employability Skills at the 2019 GSTSLN Summer Academy. Thank you Dr. Mark Vaughn and the rest of the team for including us. We enjoyed a full day of speakers and activities that focus on building STEM skills and career interests in the […]
New Soft Skills Training Shows Positive Results
The WDI 2018 Annual Impact report noted that our Rochester/Genesee Valley Regional Director, Lynn Freid, was working on a project to pilot a soft skills program in NYS that had been developed and seen success by the California-based non-profit, New World of Work (NWoW). NWoW is affiliated with the CA-based community college system and in […]
Self-awareness and Kata for Teams
Exciting day at Syracuse’s Innovation Tech High School delivering one of the New World of Work‘s Top 10 Skills: SELF-AWARENESS. Students learned about different characteristics such as Introversion/Extroversion, Sensing/Intuition, Feeling/Thinking and Judging/Perceiving. With this awareness, students experience the strengths of working in diverse teams comprised of others that have different characteristics. We followed up with introducing […]
Introducing Lean Thinking
G.W. Lisk has invested in an interactive Introduction to Lean Thinking training that introduces participants to the fundamentals of continuous improvement thinking. Participants are provided with four alternating iterations of classroom instruction and hands-on application of Lean principles using a Lego Airplane Factory simulation exercise. As a result, participants develop a foundation of Lean Thinking […]
TWI Job Instruction for Skilled Mentors
Empowering a mentoring culture to develop capabilities within our teams. The second group of Mentors and Supervisors at G.W. Lisk Corporation completed Training Within Industry Job Instruction: a program that creates a pattern for supervisors to most effectively train employees how to do a job safely, correctly and conscientiously. Participants apply a method and standard way for […]