Workshops
Workshops
The Manufacturing Competitiveness Initiative sponsors many workshops of interest to the manufacturer. Listed below are workshops that have been given at various locations throughout the region:
- "Planning a Quality System" at Ashland University
- "Introduction to Exporting" at Ashland University
- "Introduction to Exporting" at Massillon/Stark AU campus
- "Introduction to Exporting" at Wooster Chamber of Commerce
- "Introduction to Exporting" at OSU-Mansfield campus
- "Recovery Assistance from Import Competition" at Ashland University
- Selecting a First Line Supervisor at Ashland University , Wooster & Norwalk
- Forging Technology Conference at Ashland University co-sponsored by Ashland Precision Tooling, LLC.
- Resume and Interview Critiquing at Ashland University
- Filling the Machinist Vacancies at Ashland University
- Schoonover Industries Tour at Ashland University
- Machinist Workshop at PR Machine Works, Inc in the Ontario Industrial Park
- China Experience Gap at Ashland University , co-sponsored with MAGNET
- Workers Comp and Terminating an Employee at Ashland University
- Pay Compression: Impact of Ohio Minimum Wage at Ashland University
- Marketing and Product Management Solutions at Ashland University
Future Workshops planned by the Manufacturing Competitiveness Initiative:
- New Employee Orientations the first 90 days
- Performance Management giving employees feedback and disciplinary actions
- Recruitment and Hiring
- Civil rights and other legal requirements
- Design a Competitive Benefits Package
- Employee Handbooks
- Writing Job Descriptions
- How to determine the market value of a Job.
- The Fair Labor Standards Act (Overtime Law)
- Sexual Harassment
The Manufacturing Competitiveness Initiative has also supplied speakers and tours for the Ashland Small Manufacturers Council:
- Tour of the Kehoe Training Facility of North Central State College in Shelby , Ohio.
- Education Programs by Program Manager of Center for Corporate and Community Education at the Mansfield campus of the Ohio State University.
- "Employees/Education. What do you need? What are we supplying? How can we change it?" by Ashland University Financial Aid
- "Advances in technology--cash management" by Key Bank
- "College-NOW program at Kehoe Center of North Central State College" presented by Dave Baldwin, business liaison.
- Review of Services offered by the Department of Job and Family Services by Gary Hannan, Director.
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Premise Liability presented by Fred Oxley of Lutz & Oxley
Co, LPA
Ashland Precision Tooling's Forging Technology
Conference
