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2006 SPI Events

Building a Manufacturing Workforce Prepared to Compete

A Workforce Management Workshop by
The Society of the Plastics Industry and the
Training Modernization Group

February 23, 2006 – 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
John Tyler Community College
Chester, Virginia

How Well-Trained and Productive Is Your Workforce?

Do Your First-Line Production Supervisors Have What It Takes To Lead?

Reduce Overhead – Improve Employee Performance – Increase Productivity
With SPI’s Workforce Management Workshop

U.S. companies that are successfully competing in the global market have the right people with the right skills in the right numbers at the right time at the right cost to execute their corporate strategy.

Companies that are truly committed to process improvement know that investing in their human capital and skill development is equally as important as investing in physical assets. This workshop is rich in actual examples of how companies large and small have created People SYSTEMs that are directly merged with their business needs and focused on improving business performance.

Keynote speaker Joe Barto, President of Training Modernization Group, Inc., will show attendees how to reduce overhead and improve employee performance. He will cover methodologies for analyzing Return on Investment for human capital management programs and assessing internal cost drivers associated with implementation.

Through case studies and practical applications, attendees will learn to:

See the Human Capital Management System and its business impacts.
Understand the importance of the “On Boarding” Process mapped to key business metrics.
Examine the Production Workforce Development Process to focus on reducing headcount with increasing productivity and capacity.
Focus on identifying and cultivating future 1st line leaders and their immediate managers by developing leadership and performance indicators.
Know the principles of Building Bench Strength and Succession Planning.
Implement proven methods of developing and resource justifying a Human Capital Management Strategy with a year-by-year plan to accomplish that strategy.
Identify hidden cost drivers such as program and procedure development, courseware development, IT support infrastructure.
Modernize existing training programs.
Develop Return on Investment Models and prepare successful budget requests.

Tentative Seminar Agenda

8:00 - 9:00 a.m.	Registration
9:00 – 9:15 a.m.	Sponsor Recognition – RJG, Inc.
9:15 – 9:45 a.m.	Seeing the Big Picture Human Capital Management from Recruiting to Retirement Improving Business Performance Principles and Metrics for Measuring Impact
9:45 – 10:30 a.m.	On-Boarding Building Pipelines to Attract, Hire, and Retain the Best Talent, in the Right Numbers, with the Right Skills, at the Right Time
10:30 – 11:15 a.m.	Improving the Performance of the Current Workforce Your Best Investment May Be Your Current High Performing Workers!
11:15 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.	Leader Development Programs: Current Leader – Current Job Leading Indicators of Future Performance Building Future Leaders For First Day Success
12:15 – 1:15 p.m.	Lunch and Informal Networking
1:15 – 2:30 p.m.	Human Capital Challenges Senior Plastics Industry Executives Discuss Hum an Capital Challenges During Mergers and Acquisitions Rick Carroll, Vice President of Human Resources for Captive Plastics Larry McIsaac, President of Rubbermaid Commercial Products (invited)
2:30 – 3:30 p.m.	Putting It All Together Developing a Human Capital Management Strategy How to Build and Defend Budgets
3:30 – 5:00 p.m.	Break-Out Product Demonstrations Realistic Job Previews Modular Blended Training Programs Learning Management Systems: How to Make Them Real! Depth Charts to Manage Right Person to Right Job Deriving Job Descriptions from Value Stream Maps RJG, Inc.