Duha Group 
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Employee engagement strategies

Effective tools to gain employee engagement and growth

Format

Deep Dive Session
Thursday, Oct. 12 Location Code
1:45pm-2:45pm Hynes Center, Level 3, Room 311 ThS/69

Topic(s)

Overview

Gain insights on how to learn at your facilities through a SWOT engagement process. This brainstorming session will focus on employee engagement and learning. Attendees will break out into groups and discuss topics including:

  • Employee idea generation - how to drive them from the bottom up.
  • Core skills growth - cross training, upgrading, personal development.
  • Employee continuous improvement.
  • Employee recognition - what is enough?
  • How are you growing your next leaders - succession planning.
  • Shareback – leader to employee feedback.
  • How are you onboarding new employees?

After the teams' brainstorming session, the opportunities discovered will be presented to the entire group. Attendees can then capture the ideas that are relevant to their organization.

Company

The Duha Group is a global leader in the production of color marketing supplies. For more than 16years, it has developed its own interpretation of operational excellence methodologies, focused entirely on practical implementation in a live, high-volume production environment. The use of lean concepts can be found in accounting, customer service, sales, logistics, human resources, warehousing, and manufacturing process.  Throughout its lean journey, Duha has worked with many companies in various industries across Canada and the rest of the world, training and sharing best practices. www.duhagroup.com

Presenters: Mark Somogyi / Fontana Coy

As a member of the Duha Center of Excellence team, Mark Somogyi has 20+ years of experience in manufacturing with specific training in the TCCS Toyota Production System and CME continuous improvement program. The last 10 years, he has been part of a leadership team implementing CI and health and safety initiatives within the organization. Somogyi has successfully implemented a CI culture in two companies and he has trained hundreds on CI principles.

Fontana Coy is a CI transformation coach at Duha Group, with experience in customer service and distribution/marketing/sales. She is black belt-certified in the Duha's Passport to World Excellence program. She has been leading external companies on the start of their CI journey with opportunity identification exercises, VMS and SOPs. She is the yellow belt facilitator for communication skills and green belt facilitator for facilitation skills. Coy holds a bachelor of commerce degree from the Asper School of Business majoring in international business and logistics/supply chain and business administration diploma from Red River College.