Improve Leadership on the Shop Floor
Are you promoting a key associate to supervisor?
Do you want to increase leadership on the shop floor?

This month, Tooling U launched a new training department—Supervisor Essentials. This department focuses on management skills and policies needed to work with people on the shop floor. Each class contains interactive excercises and audio features, as well as lab exercises. Unlike existing supervisory training, Tooling U has developed these classes to reflect a manufacturing atmosphere.

• Essentials of Leadership 110
• Essentials of Communication 120
• Managing Performance: Best Practices 130
• Managing Performance: Corrective Actions 135
• Basics of Manufacturing Costs 140
• Intro to Managerial Accounting 145
• Conflict Resolution Principles 150
• Conflict Resolution for Different Groups 155
• Team Leadership 160
• Harassment and Discrimination 215
• Performance Management and the Law 230

SkillsTrac and Tooling U Partner to Provide Maintenance Training for Dislocated Workers
Tooling U has partnered with SkillsTrac to provide industrial maintenance training to people located in Western Ohio. SkillsTrac will employ Tooling U's web-based curriculum to teach industrial maintenance theory to its students. This new partnership will help current manufacturing employees as well as recently dislocated workers who are seeking manufacturing employment.

SkillsTrac chose Tooling U as a training provider partly because Tooling U offered content that supported a stackable training program. Stackable training provides different levels and hierarchies of training, similar to career pathing. In addition, the unique advantages of online training will enable SkillsTrac to provide a flexible and self-paced program. According to Toni Neary, Business Development for Tooling U’s Government and Education Team, "With a stackable program, [SkillsTrac] offer[s] different levels and hierarchies of training, much more like a career path. We're able to provide them with web-based content that supports their hands-on lab training at each of these different levels."

For additional information on the SkillsTrac and Tooling U partnership, click here.

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