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In this podcast series, we focus on workforce issues impacting companies and individuals across industries through in-depth interviews with experts using new approaches to enact change in their plants, attract up-and-coming workers and overcome the skills gap.
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Whether it's a global pandemic, inclement weather conditions, or other unforeseen challenges, being a good leader is key to making it through difficult times. In this episode, Jay Richards, a member of the founding team and senior consultant at Denison Consulting, returns to the show to discuss a little bit about leadership in a post-pandemic world and going forward.
Learn more about Denison Consulting: https://www.denisonconsulting.com/
Read the transcript: https://www.controlglobal.com/podcasts/manufacturing-tomorrows-workforce/leadership-and-the-future-of-work
For the past year or so, many manufacturers have struggled to keep up and running, maintain staff, and adjust to the digital changes the pandemic required. Making these changes or funding a new project, like a digitalization effort, for example, can be expensive, but there are grants and funding available to help. Micki Vandeloo, president of Lakeview Consulting, returns to keep us up-to-date on the changing grant landscape for manufacturers.
Read the transcript: https://www.controlglobal.com/podcasts/manufacturing-tomorrows-workforce/navigating-the-changing-grant-landscape
The COVID-19 pandemic forced many employers to reduce their staffs, but having workers who have the know-how and nurturing their growth is still important. Amanda Del Buono and Tom Strong, director of employer action for the National Fund for Workforce Solutions, discuss the importance of investing in and training employees for the long haul.
Read the transcript: https://www.controlglobal.com/podcasts/manufacturing-tomorrows-workforce/how-a-training-program-can-solve-many-of-your-workforce-problems
With the change that 2020 brought, it might be time for us to get used to change. Business Enterprise Mapping's Donald James speaks with Amanda Del Buono to help us understand how manufacturers can manage that change in their organizations going forward.
Learn more about Business Enterprise Mapping: https://www.businessmapping.com/
Read the full transcript: https://www.controlglobal.com/podcasts/manufacturing-tomorrows-workforce/how-to-better-manage-change-in-your-organization
With vaccines rolling out, some workers are returning to their normal duties. Some manufacturers, however, may find themselves short-staffed and back in search of employees, a difficult endeavor prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. With more people out of work, can manufacturers more easily recruit from a larger pool of potential workers?
In this episode, Amanda Del Buono discusses how manufacturers can recruit in a post-pandemic environment with Tom Moriarty, professional engineer, certified maintenance and reliability professional, certified asset reliability practitioner, MBA in business administration, President of Alidade M.E.R. Inc., and columnist for Putman Media’s Plant Services magazine.
Read the full transcript at https://www.controlglobal.com/podcasts/manufacturing-tomorrows-workforce/how-can-manufacturers-recover-their-workforces-post-pandemic
Amanda Del Buono is joined by Deanna Nord, Principal of Nord Strategy Group, speaker and contributing writer to plant services in the journal magazines, as well as other publications, to discuss how the industry was impacted by 2020, and what 2021 has in store.
Read the full transcript: https://www.controlglobal.com/podcasts/manufacturing-tomorrows-workforce/a-look-ahead-what-does-the-next-year-hold-for-u-s-manufacturers
Putman Media social and digital media coordinator, Alexandra Ditoro, spoke with Greg Paulsen, director of application engineering at Xometry, and Tressa Gardner, associate vice president of Southeastern Institute of Manufacturing Technology (SIMT), which is a manufacturing trade school that has partnered with Xometry for both training and revenue and is dedicated to help funding university operations.
In this podcast, Amanda Del Buono interviews Dirck Schou, CEO of Taqtile (https://taqtile.com/), about the use of augmented and virtual reality for training in the manufacturing industry.
Read the full transcript here: https://www.controlglobal.com/podcasts/manufacturing-tomorrows-workforce/augmented-and-virtual-reality-training-in-industry
Dean Steadman, CNC Education program manager for FANUC, joins Amanda Del Buono and Thomas Wilk, editor in chief of Putman Media’s Plant Services magazine, to share how the company built its training program to help manufacturers throughout the United States find the trained CNC machinists they need.
Read the full transcript here: https://www.controlglobal.com/podcasts/manufacturing-tomorrows-workforce/how-fanuc-build-a-cnc-training-program-for-us-schools/
Learn more about FANUC education programs: www.fanucamerica.com/education/cnc-robodrill
In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, employee health and safety has come to the forefront of many leaders’ minds. To help those leaders put thought into action, Amanda Del Buono interviews Kylene Zenk, director of manufacturing practice at Kronos, about how digital technologies can help manufacturers be more attentive to their employees’ overall well-being.
Read Kronos U.S. Workforce Activity Report: www.kronos.com/about-us/newsroom/update-us-workforce-activity
Learn about Kronos' employee contact tracing capability: https://www.kronos.com/about-us/newsroom/kronos-introduces-employee-contact-tracing-capability-support-covid-19-response
Read the full transcript of this episode: https://www.controlglobal.com/podcasts/manufacturing-tomorrows-workforce/prioritizing-employee-mental-and-physical-health-and-safety/
Digitalization is reliant on a workforce that's willing to accept the change. To discuss how manufacturers can bridge that gap and gain buy-in from their workforces, Amanda Del Buono interviews Jonathon Hensley, founder and CEO of Emerge Interactive, a company that assists organizations in achieving digital transformation.
Read the full transcript here: https://www.controlglobal.com/podcasts/manufacturing-tomorrows-workforce/advice-for-gaining-buy-in-to-digital-transformation/
Learn more about Jonathon’s new book, “Alignment”: https://www.emergeinteractive.com/podcast/
Amanda Del Buono interviews Jay Richards, a member of the founding team and senior consultant at Denison Consulting, a consulting firm that helps its clients improve their culture and build leadership development. They discuss leadership during the coronavirus pandemic and then step back to take a broader look at leadership development in U.S. manufacturing.
Read the full transcript here: https://www.controlglobal.com/podcasts/manufacturing-tomorrows-workforce/leadership-during-covid-19/
Visit Jay's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJix0XVFhLJvqO1EFIw_Z8w
Illustrating the success of apprenticeship programs, Putman Media intern Alexandra Ditoro interviewed Melody Whitten, director of development for 58 Inc., a part of Shelby County Alabama's Economic Development Committee (http://58inc.org/). Whitten explains how the local organization built an apprenticeship program and how this program is helping local manufacturers build their own talent pipelines. Whitten also offers advice to manufacturers considering implementing an apprenticeship model.
Read the full transcript.
Amanda Del Buono interviews Joe McMurry, peer group solutions consultant for the Purdue Manufacturing Extension Partnership, about how manufacturers can reduce turnover by improving their employee retention strategies.
Read the full transcript here: https://www.controlglobal.com/podcasts/manufacturing-tomorrows-workforce/what-you-need-to-know-to-retain-employees/
While many are able to work from home during the current pandemic, field service workers by nature don't have this option. In this special edition episode, Amanda Del Buono is joined by Stacey Epstein, chief marketing officer and customer experience officer at ServiceMax, to discuss how organizations and individuals can stay safe while keeping essential equipment up and running.
Read the full transcript.
Visit the new Field Service Job Finder from ServiceMax and Krios at https://www.fieldservicefinder.com/
Peter Coleman, president and CEO of Buffalo Niagara Manufacturing Alliance, joins Amanda Del Buono to discuss how the coronavirus pandemic is challenging the manufacturing industry and its workforce.
Read the full transcript.
Amanda Del Buono is joined by Terry Iverson, founder of ChampionNow!, a nonprofit organization with the goal of changing the image of manufacturing in the eyes of the next generation of workers. They discuss attracting the next generation of workers and changing their perception of manufacturing as well as in their parent's eyes.
In line with the podcast, Iverson is offering 30% off his book "Finding America's Greatest Champion," here https://championnow.org/podcast/
Randy Heisler, vice president of Life Cycle Engineering, a consulting firm serving private industry, public entities and government organizations, chats with Amanda Del Buono about retirement and how manufacturers can better prepare for their retiring workforce and manage new workers.
Alexandra Ditoro, a current journalism student at Loyola University in Chicago, builds on our last podcast about the academic-practice gap with her interview with Jack Ferguson, a recent graduate of Clemson University and a seal reliability engineer at SEPCO. Alexandra and Jack discuss Jack’s transition from a student to a practitioner, what he felt confident about and what he maybe didn’t feel so confident about as he started his career.
Amanda Del Buono interviews R. Russell Rhinehart, CONTROL magazine columnist, engineering coach and professor at the Oklahoma State University’s School of Chemical Engineering, about the academic-practice gap. Russ explains what the gap is, why it exists and if it can be closed.
Read Rhinehart's column on ControlGlobal.com: http://bit.ly/2HnSWsZ
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