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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.
| "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 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 |
| "The skills we need include problem-solving and project management." | 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 |
| "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 |