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Course Catalog
The course catalog includes instructional seminars, conferences, and bootcamps. Each offer was designed through years of intense study at Milliken and tried-and-true methodologies which moved us from plateaus to new heights.
These seminars, conferences, and bootcamps are targeted at specific client requests, as well as aiding our implementing clients to achieve the best results possible.
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Driving World-Class Operational Excellence:
A Three-Day Conference on Milliken's Innovative Performance System
A Conference on World-Class Performance Through Continuous Lean Process Improvement and Associate Empowerment.
Join Milliken in Spartanburg, SC and benchmark a world-class system of sustainable operational excellence and performance improvement that targets cost reduction.
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Tour an Award-Winning Milliken Plant Where You Can Experience How Milliken Executes Its Global Operational Excellence Processes First Hand!!!
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Supervisor Bootcamp
Three Days of Critical Training to Prepare You for Your Role in a Culture of Continuous Improvement
Learn the Core Competencies Practiced by Milliken Leaders! Your Three Days Include 1 Day of Coaching Bootcamp Featuring the Coaching Clinic® from Corporate Coach U!
A culture of continuous improvement is becoming the prerequisite for success in today’s highly competitive business environment. Supervisors can become the conduit or the blockers between your current culture and the culture you are trying to achieve. Discover the essential skills and competencies supervisors need to be successful in driving a continuous improvement culture.
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Financial Breakthroughs:
How to Reduce Manufacturing Costs Through Zero Loss Thinking, Waste Removal and Employee Engagement
Explore Milliken’s effective processes through practical classroom instruction and hands-on activities. Make the investment of your time and learn how adopting Milliken’s cost-reducing focused improvement methods could deliver your organization exceptional results. Just 2 days at Milliken provides you with an in-depth study into this global organization—a company that benefits from using zero-based thinking to identify any and all potential wastes/losses.
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World-Class Training on Maintenance and Reliability Teams
A Three Day Seminar on a Collaborative Approach to Reliability for Improved Manufacturing Performance.
Just 3 days at Milliken provides you with an in-depth study into this global organization’s best-in-class autonomous and preventative maintenance (inside Milliken referred to as Daily Team Maintenance.) Discover how you can develop and cement the partnership between your operators and your maintenance associates while engaging each in the shared ownership of excellence in reliability. Learn from Milliken’s approach which is laid out step-by-step, covering all the critical building blocks of a reliability system. In addition, as reliability commonly requires active restoration of your critical equipment components, explore Milliken’s model to ‘fund’ this restoration—ensuring a net zero investment requirement.
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Coaching Bootcamp for Leadership Effectiveness
Explore this Vanguard Organization's Management Development Training.
Today’s highly competitive business environment requires you and your organization to perform at higher levels and with greater speed. Leaders and managers must place a new emphasis on individual and collective learning and creativity. Discover crucial coaching skills and competencies during these two days. Gain an in-depth understanding of the coaching process and how to become a stronger coach. Learn a model for coaching effectively based on The Coaching Clinic® from Corporate Coach U.
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Best Practices in World-Class Safety Processes
A Three Day Seminar on Safety Operational Excellence Today and in the Future.
Shelve theoretical models and learn Milliken’s tried-and-true processes through a compelling and effective learning model combining the best of practical classroom instruction and hands-on Milliken plant tours.
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Safety Bootcamp
A Comprehensive Workshop on Safety Systems and Processes for Sustainable Continuous Improvement
Adopt Milliken’s 20-Step Safety Process© that earned Milliken & Company recognition as one of America’s 12 safest companies. According to a 2010 HayGroup® Employee Engagement Survey, Milliken’s results for associates feeling highly engaged and supported was 30 percentage points higher than the industry norm. Nearly double the industry norm results. Explore Milliken’s safety organizational structure and how to drive world-class safety performance and continuous improvement with associate engagement as the cornerstone of your system.
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