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Course Descriptions <br />Skills for Success <br />An ideal employee is one who is reliable, professional, and eager to learn. In addition, organizations in today's <br />workplace expect employees to work smarter and contribute to the company's success. To do this, employees <br />must be able to do the following effectively: communicate, work in teams, deal with and resolve conflict, take <br />initiative, solve problems, and work safely. In this course, you will learn methods, techniques, and tools that <br />can help you become a highly valued member of an organization. You will also assess your own workplace <br />skills and identify areas in which you can improve. <br />Objectives: <br />- Identify attitudes, characteristics, and skills employers want employees to have. <br />- Assess your own attitudes, characteristics, and behaviors; identify strengths and weaknesses. <br />- Explain best practices for working with others. <br />- Identify the types of diversity commonly encountered in the workplace and describe techniques for dealing <br />with diverse people. <br />- Describe techniques for dealing with conflict in the workplace. <br />- List general safety rules for the workplace. <br />- Implement a problem solving process to solve a given problem. <br />- List tips and techniques for improving your interviewing success. <br />Intended audience: <br />- Individuals new to manufacturing or the workforce. <br />- Individuals seeking work. <br />- Individuals desiring to upgrade their workplace skills.. <br />5-S The Visual Workplace <br />This program offers you an opportunity to experience first-hand how the 5S System reduces waste in the <br />mounting plate assembly area of a simulated production facility. Participants learn the concepts of the 5S <br />System and then apply them to transform a cluttered, disorganized production area into a clean and orderly <br />workplace. <br />Objectives: <br />- Describe differences in workplace appearance and functionality before and after the 5S process has been <br />applied. <br />- Perform an in-depth audit of workplace organization and standardization through use of a Workplace Scan. <br />- Organize a workplace by applying the concepts of Sort, Set in Order, and Shine. <br />- Standardize procedures to maintain and control an organized workplace using visual controls. <br />- Explain methods to apply the fifth concept, Sustain. <br />- Describe how 5S can help to improve workplace environmental health and safety. <br />Intended audience: manufacturing personnel, including technicians, engineers, and managers. <br />Purdue MEP Center mep.purdue.edu 800-877-5182 Project #18871 Page 8 <br />