Course Description:

Keep Your Best People, Improve Productivity & Make Best Practices Become Your Common Practices 

With constant changes in the marketplace and workforce, supervisors must be continuously equipped to improve productivity and retain their best people. This course provides any manager in the packaging industry (corrugated, folding carton, or rigid box) education and hands-on experience with the tools of leadership and improvement. Before this course, participants are encouraged to complete a self-assessment to gain awareness of their specific leadership and communication style. Participants are encouraged to share their best practices, challenges, and questions for discussion.  This popular seminar has been updated to address up-to-minute challenges.  

Should you attend both or just one??  We are offering these two courses together to give you the opportunity to expand your knowledge quickly and at less expense, however, each course was developed to stand alone. You don't need to attend one course in order to participate in the other. Attending both will grow you as a Leader and then go more in-depth in to the tools and practices you need to begin measuring your machines production, creating benchmarks and tracking improvements and creating not only production success but financial success as well.

You may consider bringing some operators or supervisors to Production Measurement & Buy-In with you. This way you can begin creating these processes together, understand why and how to do it, so you can have an immediate impact when you return to your plant.

Important Note: A Production Leader should plan to attend both courses. Also, it would be great to bring people in for the second course and have a practical experience to build buy in and make plans for what they want to do back in the plant. Even if you decide not to bring your whole team for both days, you can bring them for the second session and build a very practical process for implementation in your plant back home.

Learning Objectives:

• Gain knowledge of personal leadership style and adapt to challenging situations
• Improve communication skills
• Build a more productive team 
• Create a Visual Workplace
• Build standard work including decision trees, SOPs, and 1 point lessons

Who Should Attend:

• Supervisors, Superintendents, Production Managers
• Managers of any department
• Process Improvement specialists
• Quality Managers
• Leaders in training

Course Location:

Atlas Container | 8140 Telegraph Road | Severn, MD 21144-3204

Atlas Container is a manufacturer of corrugated packaging and display products. They deliver with their own trucks and run their own manufacturing equipment, so customers are buying directly from the source with no middle man.They have several printing machines to customize any packaging needs. They also have two state-of-the art, design and testing departments that can create or re-engineer packaging prototypes.

Hotel Location: 

Towne Place (Marriott Property)

Hotel Cut Off - February 1, 2019
Group Rate: $139 (Group Code: AICC)

Registration Information:

Important Note: A Production Leader should plan to attend both courses. Also, it would be great to bring people in for the second course and have a practical experience to build buy in and make plans for what they want to do back in the plant. Even if you decide not to bring your whole team for both days, you can bring them for the second session and build a very practical process for implementation in your plant back home.

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AICC Member

• Production Leadership ONLY $1295 (first person) $795 (additional people)
• Production Measurement ONLY $1295 (first person) $795 (additional people)
• Both Courses (Production Leadership & Production Measurement) $1895

Non-Member

• Production Leadership ONLY $2000
• Production Measurement ONLY $2000
• Both Courses (Production Leadership & Production Measurement) $4000

Instructor

Scott Ellis EdD, Working Well LLC

Dr. Ellis is a leadership and process improvement specialist who serves on AICC’s faculty to assist in building Packaging School curriculum. Scott has served as a resource for development of individuals, teams, and organizations as a consultant, teacher, psychotherapist, coach, and general manager in the packaging industry for two decades. His pragmatic approach is focused on making it easy to do the right things right.

Agenda

 

Tuesday, February 12, 2019
8:00AM Overview: Goals, expectations, and introductions
9:00AM Facility tour of host plant
10:00AM Get control of yourself! Use your leadership style to get things done
12:00PM Lunch
1:00PM Get control of your team! Growing your team for engagement and retention
2:30PM Delegation of responsibility & authority
3:30PM Get control of Improvement! Problem solving with your team
5:00PM Close
6:00PM Reception at hotel

Wednesday, February 13, 2019
8:00AM Get control of your schedule! Time management
10:15AM Visual Workplace, a project to practice leadership skills
10:45AM Building a Workplace Plan with experience on the plant floor on a target machine
11:45AM Lunch
12:45PM Sorting and Setting in Order Red tagging, Prioritizing, and building an action plan
1:45PM Planning a shine event
2:15PM Setting Standards, Organization of materials and tools, and standard work.
2:45PM Making it last, Standardize
3:30PM Build your personal education plan & Application plan
4:00PM Report Out 
4:45PM Adjourn