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Employer Quotes
The quotes below are from employers in this industry: Manufacturing
They are talking about this topic: Needs & Challenges in Continuing Education
The quotes below are about this issue:
The general skills in which employers frequently train incumbents include project management and leadership, problem-solving, and communication.
| "We try to bring new people in. And we already have highly-skilled people doing different operations in the plant, but they might not have the skill needed to transfer their knowledge to other people. So, the leadership skills and the communication skills—and as our workforce ages—how we can continue to ensure they have great jobs while transferring knowledge?" | Central |
| "Your two-year grads, you've got to get them some continuing education for the project management skills and all the other soft skills if they're not getting it in school." | Central |
| "I think that's where MnSCU can help is problem-solving. We talked a lot about cause analysis and things like that; things that you can teach at a high school or college level. Look at a problem, and not take the first thing you see as being the answer, but to dig down and find the real cause of the problem. And we focus a lot on that." | Northwest |
| "We currently go through the Employers' Association of the Cities, and I've been through several of their training groups. If we could get training of leadership skills here, locally, it would be a benefit to all of us." | Northwest |
| "And that's where internal training is useful—to make sure our employees understand how they have to put the information into the system. And, company-wide, problem-solving is the largest single thing. The closer we can solve the problem to where the problem's at, the better. And people need to understand how to do that. They need to know when to bring problems up to the next level. So, internally, that's our goal. It's creating a culture that we can pass onto the next generation." | Northwest |
| "I think it would be the leadership development, team building, and those kinds of skills to get the attitude from 'everything is about me' to how it fits into the big picture." | Northwest |
| "The skills we need include problem-solving and project management." | Northwest |
| "We do something similar with Employers Association, Trusight, and all of that—bring in leadership training for people to accept roles, including manufacturing roles of higher pay and supervision." | Southeast |
| "We get workers together and we work on problem-solving and leadership skills. We do that internally." | Southeast |
| "Right now, our company is going through a cultural assessment, training everybody on how to get along with each other, and how to work in teams." | Southeast |
| "There are some people that I'm promoting that do not have fundamental critical-thinking skills. To be able to think their way around a problem, to fix their machine electronically, to run it. There are people that don't have the fundamental computer skills to be able to run it. So, the answer is: I need people with critical-thinking skills and computer skills." | Southwest |
| "I can't tell you guys that I'm going to need 'X' in four or five years. I'm not sure what I'm going to need next year. I mean, you know the types of projects that are coming in and the rate of change that's going on. The skills levels that we will need, I can't tell you that now. But I agree with everything that you guys are saying—that critical thinking is definitely important. Learn how to learn, and be ready to learn. Maybe that's something that needs to be drilled into everybody that's out there, 'Yeah you're smart, you did great. You got the certificate, but there are a lot of things that you haven't figured out, so be ready for that.'" |
Southwest |