Workshops
Managing & Understanding the Hispanic Workforce: A Workshop for Managers in the Forest Industries
March 17, 2008 at the Wood Education and Resource Center (WERC) in Princeton, WV. The USDA Forest Service’s Wood Education and Resource Center and Virginia Tech’s Sloan Foundation Forest Industries Center are pleased to co-sponsor a diversity management workshop designed to improve your management skills in working with the growing Hispanic workforce. The interactive workshop will focus on meeting the cultural, communication, and legal challenges associated with hiring and managing this multicultural workforce. Please see the workshop agenda. Click here to register online. For a workshop flyer and printed registration form, please click here or for a complete workshop agenda, click here.
Lean Manufacturing Workshop for Wood Products Manufacturers
May 7-9, 2007 at the Wood Education and Resource Center in Princeton, WV. This workshop was the 5th joint offering of the Forest Industries Center's and the University of Minnesota Duluth's Lean Manufacturing Workshop Series for the wood products industry updated with learning simulations and industry examples applied to primary and secondary wood products manufacturers. This workshop helps managers in wood products businesses identify target opportunity areas in their company for lean manufacturing, provide a step-by-step guide for the implementation of “lean systems” and direct them toward a philosophy of continuous improvement needed for today’s increasing business competition. For additional information about this workshop or future lean manufacturing workshops please contact Earl Kline at kline@vt.edu. For a printable program brochure, click here.
Managing & Leading Change: A Workshop for the Wood Products and Forest Industries
October 15-16, 2007 at the Wood Education and Resource Center (WERC) in Princeton, WV. The USDA Forest Service's Wood Education and Resource Center and the Sloan Foundation Forest Industries Center will be co-sponsoring this dynamic, interactive workshop where leading experts in the field of change management will be present to discuss success strategies for leading and managing organizational change, how to develop the strategic agility needed to respond to external change, and how to create an entrepreneurial culture that encourages innovation throughout your organization. Click here to register online. For a workshop agenda, click here.