Topic(s)
- People-centric leadership
Overview
Did you know that 61% of workers believe it’s their employer’s responsibility to help them learn new skills? Businesses realize that skill development is in their best interest. The World Economic Forum’s Future of Jobs Report shows that skills gaps in the local labor market are the #1 barrier to business transformation. At HME, its leaders recognized that its desired future state could not occur without awareness of the skills it would need in its ideal future workforce or a clear understanding of the current state of skills present in its workers. Building on an established skill-based assessment program underway in the manufacturing area, HME recognized that targeted skill development needed to be expanded to the rest of the company to achieve our strategic initiatives.
Learn how HME assessed the skills of its workforce and built a training intervention plan targeted to the growth it discovered it needed. Discover how the company personalized the training catered to individual learning needs, the results this program generated, and what HME learned. All with no additional cost to the organization by building its skills approach in-house.
Key learning objectives
- Learn a Knowledge Skills Abilities assessment model
- Learn how to use change management techniques in a skills initiative
- Learn how to build a scalable yet highly personalized training initiative built around skill gaps
Company
Founded in 1971, HME is a diverse group of companies that designs, manufactures, sells and services specialized communications, audio and software solutions for a variety of niche markets. Its global reach, product offerings and customer relationships extend to more than 100 countries around the world through company-owned offices in the U.S., Canada, Europe and China, and through an extensive network of authorized distributors, dealers and service agents.
In 2019, the company received the AME Excellence Award for its Carlsbad, California headquarters — a 140,000 square-foot facility home to administrative offices, production facilities, an R&D innovation center, a customer support center and 580 employees. www.hme.com
Presenter
Leadership development is where Mel Burt-Gracik has spent her career, spanning roles in higher education, coaching and training, and consulting within healthcare, biotech, non-profit, technology, and most recently, manufacturing at HME. Burt-Gracik is proud to contribute to building and sustaining a people-centric culture through HME’s learning and development program as a part of lean and operational excellence. 
