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Program Development - PD

Teach leaders "How to meet a production problem through training"

Program Development (PD) is part of the original comprehensive TWI program and continues to be a key component of a successful deployment.

The purpose of Program Development is to teach leaders “How to meet a production problem through training”. The training is a work session for no more than six participants who learn by doing. It is for those responsible for organizing and coordinating training, not for trainers. Participants do not conduct the actual training within their organization. Program Development training requires five days over two weeks: Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday of the first week and Thursday, Friday of the second week. During the course of the training, the participants discover answers to questions such as the following:

  • What is production?
  • What is a production problem?
  • What is training?
  • What is a training plan?
  • What is a training program?
  • What is management?

In addition, participants learn to use the four steps and their corollaries in the Program Development method:

Finally, each participant generates a roll out plan for their organization.

Trainer - Mitchell Ingram

Mitchell is a Program Development Trainer, and a certified Job Instruction, Job Relations, Job Methods, and Job Safety instructor. He has more than 25 years of leadership, management and continuous improvement experience. He is a former U.S. Marine and U.S. Army combat veteran. Upon realization that the original TWI programs would be crucial in assisting organizations win the global economic fight for survival he left a corporate manufacturing management position and founded TWI Training Solutions Inc. As President, he and his team of TWI Institute certified instructors know that the real challenge for organizations is in providing exceptional Leadership, substantive Training and organizational Discipline. He has extensive experience in helping leaders to Improve, Prevent, or Correct personnel and process related problems by utilizing the TWI Program along with appropriate Lean tools in a dynamic TWI deployment model.

 

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