Plant Floor Team Leader Training

FMC BioPolymer Provides Plant Floor Leadership Training to Initiate Change

Rockland, Maine, March, 2011. FMC BioPolymer is the leader in harnessing nature's renewable resources to create ingredients and technical solutions for the food, pharmaceutical, personal care and biomedical markets contracted with Everest Training & Consulting to train plant floor leaders in leading change initiatives. "We have been challenged by Management to increase production while maintaining head count" said Jennifer Johnson, HR Manager. "We need our plant floor leaders not to be overwhelmed by the ambiguity of a given situation but take the initiative to suggest and get buy-in from Operators for new processes and procedures. Our plant floor leaders for the most part have been promoted from the Operator ranks and they are now leading Operators who were their peers a short time ago. But they need to understand and be able to step-up to the responsibility of moving their particular part of the operation forward" said Johnson. "And we need to do this all within the context of maintaining a nonunion shop. Ed's program used case studies to demonstrate the level and type of action we are expecting" said Johnson. Steve Heitzmann, HR Manager at the Newark Delaware plant said, "our situation is a little different in that we are a union shop with seasoned plant floor leaders accustomed to getting things done in a particular manner. I was impressed with how Ed adapted the plant floor leader program to meet the needs of my organization and even the most established plant floor leaders said the training session provided some different approaches that they feel might just work. The challenge will be to reinforce these new approaches and achieve the desired outcomes of team work and innovation."

Everest Training & Consulting is committed to enabling organizations to innovate to profitability: to apply critical sales, service and leadership skills to create a competitive advantage and to maximize each person's contribution through individual, professional, and personal growth. For further information contact Ed Pritchard at 734-455-4151.