Ep. 54 New Year’s Eve Countdown Event
We get the band back together for our traditional NYE’s countdown podcast with Kristy and Matt. We talk about our favorite’s from 2021, our upcoming events in 2022, and shout outs to some of our connections made in 2021. Enjoy our celebrations with us and we wish everyone health and happiness in 2022! Happy New Year!
We sit down with four of our MassMEP subject matter experts, Emma Mailman, Ron Giard, Mike Thompson and Henry Hall to address the top three manufacturing challenges right now and the solutions we have at MassMEP to solve those solutions. If you are facing challenges as a manufacturer, take a minute, actually 30 and learn how to handle those challenges.
We sit down with a panel to discuss the what manufacturers can do to market, recruit and retain their workforce in our current climate. Our guests for the podcast hit each avenue, from a Marketing view, Chris Ciunci at Tribal Vision, workforce view, Jeff Turgeon at MassHire and Andrea Pion with the Davis Companies and most importantly with a Manufacturing POV, Deanna Zarella from AIS in Leominster. There are key takeaways from this podcast and for more takeaways and value adds, join them for a webinar on Wednesday, July 28th at 11:00 AM. Click here to register!
We sit down with Kristen Rayne, Outreach Manager of the Workforce Training Fund program at the Commonwealth Corporation, to talk about the changes to the Express Grant Program taking effect July 1, 2021. The program provides employers fast, simple access to grant-funded training helping businesses in Massachusetts respond to emerging needs. It is fast, flexible and friendly. Small businesses (100 employees or less) will now be able to access more training opportunities than ever with no cash flow obligation! Listen to the podcast for all the details and visit their website, to register as a provider or attendee today!
We sit down with MassMEP Project Manager, Henry Hall to talk about the upcoming Lean Six Sigma Information Session, what Lean Six Sigma is, and takeaways you can expect from the webinar; good thing we asked as we were preparing outfits to wear that day to match the colors of the belts.
The public webinar will be held May 18th from 1 – 2 PM, so if you have an hour and want to learn more about Lean Six Sigma and some upcoming training and certifications, please join us. If you can’t join us on the 18th this podcast may be just enough for you to be dangerous with your continuous improvement, but let us know if you need some advising.
In this episode we got to sit down with MassMEP project manager and TIPS facilitator, Henry Hall, to talk about our upcoming TIPS training scheduled for April 27th to the 29th. The takeaways are; tips can be implemented in all areas of business, anybody from within the organization should/could attend, every company has a repeat problem that takes a team approach to eliminate the root cause. Your training time invested eliminates time wasted solving problems.
