The manufacturing industry in North America is undergoing its fourth evolution into a high-technology, digitalized, and data-driven industry. This Industry 4.0 period began long before the COVID-19 pandemic affected global society but has been accelerated in response to many of the challenges associated with it. In this report, we examine and explore the current manufacturing industry in North America and the challenges and opportunities it faces as adoption of Industry 4.0 thinking, tools, standards, and processes becomes more widespread.
The manufacturing industry in North America is undergoing its fourth evolution into a high-technology, digitalized, and data-driven industry. This Industry 4.0 period began long before the COVID-19 pandemic affected global society but has been accelerated in response to many of the challenges associated with it. In this report, we examine and explore the current manufacturing industry in North America and the challenges and opportunities it faces as adoption of Industry 4.0 thinking, tools, standards, and processes becomes more widespread.
Leadership Pathway
7 courses | 30-50 minutes
$99 | 12 Month Access
Develop the skills to lead with confidence through our Leadership Pathway.
This self-paced, seven-course series is designed to help you strengthen essential leadership competencies—from communication and team building to strategic decision-making. Each course takes just 30–50 minutes to complete, making it easy to learn at your own pace and on your own schedule.
For just $99, you’ll gain 12 months of unlimited access to all seven courses, allowing you to revisit key lessons and continue building your leadership foundation throughout the year.
This subscription is priced per user and is billed YEARLY until cancelled.
Plan includes the following features:
Trust, Respect, and Credibility
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Today’s leader must be versatile and adaptable. Effective leadership results in everything from increased workplace productivity and employee retention, to improved succession planning and, ultimately, a better bottom line. This course, a key component of our Leadership Development training, serves as the foundation for establishing high performing leaders and defines the relationship between trust, respect, and credibility, covers the importance of follow up and honoring commitments, provides tips for gaining trust and reviews the five dysfunctions of a team – how lack of trust will inhibit execution.
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Goal Setting & Execution
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Today’s leader must be versatile and adaptable. Effective leadership results in everything from increased workplace productivity and employee retention, to improved succession planning and, ultimately, a better bottom line. All leaders must be able to establish goals and create a vision for how their teams can achieve individual and team goals that are integrated into higher level corporate goals. This course reviews creating SMART goals, prioritizing and developing action plans, introduces the 4 Disciplines of Execution, and discusses self-motivation and time management.
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Coaching & Mentoring
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Today’s leader must be versatile and adaptable. Effective leadership results in everything from increased workplace productivity and employee retention, to improved succession planning and, ultimately, a better bottom line. Coaching and mentoring comes in multiple forms and both are critical to the success of strengthening your team and building a solid succession plan for key leaders. This course defines and explains how to coach and mentor, how to set appropriate goals and coaching to achieve those goals, how to overcome common obstacles and develop a coaching plan and provide feedback.
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Team Work & Team Building
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Today’s leader must be versatile and adaptable. Effective leadership results in everything from increased workplace productivity and employee retention, to improved succession planning and, ultimately, a better bottom line. Teams are typically comprised of people with diverse ideas and backgrounds and will always outperform individuals when leaders understand how to build these teams and leverage the strengths of all team members. This course defines types of teams and the typical roles and responsibilities associated with each and discovers problem-solving as a team.
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Utilizing Emotional Intelligence in the Workplace
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Today’s leader must be versatile and adaptable. Effective leadership results in everything from increased workplace productivity and employee retention, to improved succession planning and, ultimately, a better bottom line. Leaders are faced with many situations and must learn to remain calm in the face of adversity and stay sensitive to the needs of direct reports, peers and authority figures. This course reviews self–awareness and self-management, how to manage your emotions, understand others’ emotions and how to manage in the workplace.
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Conflict Resolution
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Today’s leader must be versatile and adaptable. Effective leadership results in everything from increased workplace productivity and employee retention, to improved succession planning and, ultimately, a better bottom line. Wherever two or more people come together, there is the possibility of conflict. This course gives participants a six-step process that they can use to modify and resolve conflicts of any size. Participants will also learn crucial conflict resolution skills, including disagreeing diplomatically and using the Agreement Frame.
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Delegating Effectively
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Today’s leader must be versatile and adaptable. Effective leadership results in everything from increased workplace productivity and employee retention, to improved succession planning and, ultimately, a better bottom line. It is difficult in the day to day whirlwind to properly delegate and get the results that you are looking for. This course will take you through a step by step process for delegating effectively. Learn how to spend your time as a leader more productively and understand “SIMPLE” delegation methods.
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