IMTS 2022 Conference: The Evolution of Workforce Development

About the presentation
Professional development, upskilling, and reskilling are becoming more of a requirement to grow your business, retain employees, and ensure smooth transitions between generations of your workforce. Companies must progress from providing opportunities for continued learning to ingraining continuous and consistent improvement in their company operations from onboarding to retirement. Overall outlook on employment shifted with workers wanting more work-life balance, flexibility, and upward mobility. Employees are no longer satisfied with the standard benefits package of health coverage, 401k, and new hire training. They want to feel like their employers are actively invested in their futures and career pathways. The most successful companies and organizations in navigating this shift will have a company culture with a focus on developing the individual and fostering an expectation of growth and diversified skills. The process to create consistent development amongst your workforce does not only include navigating career pathways but starting at the beginning and creating those pathways. Whether through cross-training, leadership development, or ongoing training programs, employers must become strategic and intentional about workforce development. Though a broad subject, ongoing development is a major component that, if implemented effectively, can strengthen retention, recruitment, succession planning, and other areas that are essential to a company. Within the manufacturing industry, we face a retiring workforce and growing need to remain attractive to career seekers, both of which point to an urgent need to focus on how we can ensure that our company continues to use the most relevant avenues to both strengthen and satisfy our workforce.

Registration
Powered by AMT and managed by GIE Media, The IMTS 2022 Conference features 69 different sessions you won’t want to miss so register today. Focused on a range of topics that include process innovation, plant operations, quality/inspection, and automation, The IMTS 2022 Conference addresses improving productivity; improving part quality; and developing a stable, competent workforce to lower the cost of manufacturing in the United States and create new levels of market demand.

Meet your presenter
Akilah Thomas is the training and occupational development specialist for Kyocera SGS Precision Tools. She’s been implementing professional development programs since 2015. Before her current role in manufacturing, Thomas worked in human resources and recruitment for transportation and education industries throughout the Cleveland and Akron, Ohio area. Her experience in development includes programming for full-cycle talent acquisition, DEI, and skills training.

About the company
Kyocera Corp., the parent and global headquarters of the Kyocera Group, was founded in 1959 as a producer of fine ceramics. By combining these engineered materials with metals and integrating them with other technologies, Kyocera has become a leading supplier of electronic devices, industrial and automotive components, semiconductor packages, solar power generating systems, printers, copiers, and mobile phones.