Participants work to identify a problem or opportunity within their organization and use problem solving methodology and tools to execute a Workplace Performance Project. Participants gain hands-on experience with problem solving, project management, and how to work effectively as a team by building off of each other’s strengths. This project provides participants with knowledge, tools and confidence to use for future improvement opportunities.

Participants use processes and tools introduced throughout the program to plan and execute a workplace performance project. They will gain hands on experience with conflict resolution, cross functional communications and how to work effectively as a team. This project provides participants with knowledge, tools and confidence to use for future improvement opportunities.

Management experts agree: psychological health and safety is just as important to manufacturing workers as physical health and safety are. During this eight-week course, you’ll learn how to stoke a positive workplace culture, reduce absenteeism, and improve employee engagement by implementing strong mental health practices into your organization’s activities.

Participants use customized tools and processes throughout the program to learn, plan and execute a workplace performance project that will benefit them, their team and company. They will gain hands on experience with applying the A3 and PDCA approach to problem solving regardless of type of challenge faced.

This program is designed for Ontario companies interested in improving or enhancing their existing health and safety commitment and knowledge base. It is a course designed to clarify legal requirements surrounding health and safety, and examine the importance of a proactive approach to keeping workers protected. The Workplace Performance Project (WPP) provides a structured methodology to support participants in identifying opportunities to improve their employees’ health and safety.

Participants work to identify a problem or opportunity within their organization and then plan and execute a workplace improvement project using the processes and tools introduced throughout the program. Participants gain hands on experience with conflict resolution, cross functional communications and how to work effectively as a team by building off of each other’s strengths. This project provides participants with knowledge, tools and confidence to use for future opportunities.

Get new hires working faster and more efficiently. Grow a sustainable and productive workforce. The pandemic has wreaked havoc on supply chain/production planning, scheduling and staffing. With provincial forecasts predicting explosive growth, as leaders in your companies, you must be ready to compete for and retain new talent like never before.

By modelling, guiding, and reinforcing the skills that will support the individual’s goals, a leader can play an integral role in building capacity in those around them.

This workshop examines the power of effective feedback and teaches an effective strategy that anyone can use to build an adaptive, collaborative, and innovative workforce.

Conflict is common in any workplace. Many of us have experienced or witnessed the distress that can come with unmanaged conflict. If managed thoughtfully, conflict can be a spark for creativity, innovation, and development.

Remaining productive can often seem like a challenge for business leaders. During this course, participants receive instruction on how to resolve issues efficiently, creating a steady stream of high-quality output and keeping their workforce engaged. Through the strategies discussed here, participants can ensure consistent reliability in their department’s activities.

One of the strongest predictors of a high-performing manufacturer is the strength of communication skills within that organization. In today’s demanding and diverse workplace, people must have the ability to understand a variety of perspectives in order to share ideas, insights and information across many platforms.

To assist Canadian manufacturers in the process of making contact with newly-immigrated and foreign trained workers, EMC is launching the Global Skills Connection program — a series of workshops aimed at helping all manufacturers with Canada’s business immigration system. Global Skills Connection courses help domestic manufacturers solve existing and potential recruitment challenges, employ a diverse variety of diligent, enthusiastic newcomers, and capitalize upon internationally-recognized skills and experience!

The 5S methodology is an internationally-renowned series of internal processes that aims to maximize the impact of typical workplace activities and encourage continuous improvement throughout every department in an organization. During this course, participants will gain a thorough introduction to each step of the 5S methodology.

In this course, participants discuss the importance of standardization in the workplace, and analyze the benefits it has on employee productivity and collective output. Participants observe the impact of standardization across a diverse variety of common manufacturing departments, and examine how time-tested productivity practices lead to modern management methods.

Visual iconography can hold a great deal of power over the knowledge, engagement, and motivation of labourers in a manufacturing workspace. This course aims to strengthen participants’ knowledge of visual iconography in a manufacturing environment, and increase awareness of how to interpret, communicate, and create effective imagery.

Every role in the manufacturing sector involves some aspect of collaboration, but it can be difficult to reconcile individual personalities and work methods with shared goals and processes. During this course, participants will discover the fundamentals of building and participating in effectively-performing teams through trust, communication, and collective responsibility.

A variety of tools for overcoming production issues have been developed for application in the modern manufacturing field. These resources constitute a universally-applicable method of issue resolution. In this course, participants will analyze a vast array of problem-solving methods, and determine how to employ them in their workplaces.

Effective leadership is a critical component of a well-functioning workplace. This course serves as an introduction to all aspects of manufacturing leadership. Participants will learn about the operational, supervisory, and legal requirements of administrators in the manufacturing sector, and analyze a variety of common management resources and practices.

Lean Management Systems are the combined activities that leaders of Lean workspaces use to facilitate a culture of efficiency in their enterprises. During this series of instructional courses, participants will gain a thorough understanding of Lean Management Systems, and learn how incentivize responsibility, accountability, and co-operation within their teams.

Lean Enterprise Principles are a collection of processes that workers can utilize to achieve their goals and expand their organizations without delay. This course serves as an in-depth introduction to the Lean Enterprise methodology, thoroughly outlining its implementation practices and impact on a business’s operational and financial success.

Applying rapid improvement processes to a manufacturing workplace can often be challenging for workers and leaders. During this course, participants gain a thorough introduction to the basics of Lean Enterprise thinking and the Kaizen methodology, and utilize their rapid improvement knowledge by responding to various operational issues within their organization.

Continuous improvement processes are key to the success of any manufacturing enterprise. In this course, participants gain vital direction on realizing the potential of continuous improvement, and receive sector-leading knowledge on how to incorporate it into their own workforce in the most effective way possible.

Value Stream Maps are one of the most effective resources for stoking continuous improvement in a manufacturing workplace. This course provides participants with practical Value Stream Map implementation strategies, allowing them to begin incorporating continuous improvement processes into their own workplace activities immediately.

Total Productive Maintenance — the culmination of reactive maintenance, preventative maintenance, and predictive maintenance practices — is one of the most effective methods of optimizing productivity in a manufacturing workplace. During this course, participants will learn about every aspect of Total Productive Maintenance and its various components.

Efficient financial management is a crucial component of any smoothly-operating Lean workspace. In this course, participants receive a detailed introduction to the Lean methodology, with particular focus placed on Lean accounting practices, and learn about how to incorporate Lean processes into their typical financial activities.

Continuous improvement processes are an excellent resource for stoking beneficial change in a manufacturing organization. However, these systems are prone to being interrupted by careless mistakes. During this session, participants will understand why mistakes arise, how they impact continuous improvement, and the effect of insufficient planning on an organization’s productivity.

By utilizing the Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA) method of preparing for risk, manufacturing employees are able to to address challenges as they arise. During this course, participants gain a thorough introduction to the FMEA method, and understand how risk preparation strategies integrate with Lean Thinking principles.

Continuous improvement processes are key to the success of any manufacturing enterprise. In this course, participants gain vital direction on realizing the potential of continuous improvement, and receive sector-leading knowledge on how to incorporate it into their own workforce in the most effective way possible.

Waste can often lead to decreased profitability in financial management, but streamlining critical accounting processes can be an intimidating endeavour. In this course, participants will thoroughly analyze common accounting practices to identify redundancies, and discuss how to improve their financial management efforts through the principles of Lean accounting.

In today’s manufacturing landscape, a leader’s ability to form mutually-beneficial relationships with their employees is vital to an organization’s continued success. This series of leadership courses aims to shift long-held management methodologies towards timely worker support practices, placing focus on the creation of constructive, motivational workplace cultures.

Production equipment is a crucial component of manufacturing activities, but extensive setup times can be a significant detriment to productivity and efficiency. In this session, participants will learn about the most effective ways to deploy various forms of manufacturing equipment, and analyze the dangers of superfluous preparation.

Supervisors, managers, and team leaders play a critical role in the typical operations of any manufacturing business. In this course, participants gain a thorough introduction to the fundamental principles of a Lean workplace and Lean Management practices, and extensively analyze the impact of strong leadership on their organization.

The “Kaizen” process of workplace management is one of the modern manufacturing landscape’s key resources for heightening productivity and organization. This course aims to develop every aspect of Kaizen usage — including development, implementation, and execution — and discusses a number of topics surrounding the importance of continuous process improvement.

Without the proper support, problem-solving in a manufacturing workplace can often be a difficult and time-consuming effort. In this course, participants learn about the Planning, Doing, Checking, and Acting (PDCA) method of problem-solving, and understand the diverse benefits it offers to manufacturing workers and organizations.

A “pull system” is the process by which employees take on new tasks immediately following their completion of existing ones. Throughout this course, participants gain a full understanding of pull systems — including their relationship with Kanban organization structures, their impact on workplace productivity, and common implementation strategies.

Front-line leaders often find themselves with competing priorities. On the one hand leaders have activities related to long-term strategy that deserve careful planning and execution. These are the “should do” activities to make beneficial improvements in the processes they champion.