by Proactive Technologies, Inc. – Staff
James Ruble. Director of CTE & Student Pathways, Tri-Rivers Career Center & Center for Adult Education and Dean Prigelmeier, Founder and President of Proactive Technologies, Inc. sit down for a 30-minute interview with Kayleigh Aiken, Anchor of “Public Affairs.”
Mr. Ruble discusses Tri-Rivers Career Center’s range of workforce development services to provide employers with prospective employees. The Center develops students with the foundation skills upon which employers can build employer-specific/work-specific skills they need. He elaborates on new school initiatives to help employers and position the Career Center to be more of a partner for economic development.
Mr. Prigelmeier explains the widening training gap he witnessed that drove him to leave manufacturing and develop a software-supported worker development infrastructure and system that provides all of the tools of the human resource development and performance management process. Any change to the job requirements and all of the tools are updated to include it. Proactive Technologies provides infrastructure development and technical implementation support to make sure the investment is maximized and the client employer can focus on business.
“I wanted to make available to small, medium and larger companies the training development infrastructure and support of a Fortune 250 company, except with far greater returns for a tiny fraction of the investment. This approach is efficient, economical and leads to higher worker ROI and clear justification for the effort,” explained Prigelmeier. “By building an infrastructure around what most employers already have – an informal, ad hoc, undocumented and immeasurable one-on-one training experience – this approach cuts the employer’s internal direct and opportunity costs of training and quickly increases each worker’s capacity to full job mastery. Full job mastery means increases in work quantity, work quality and compliance (e.g. ISO, AS, IATF, NADCAP and safety). Each worker’s development – no matter if a new-hire, incumbent or cross-trainee – is driven to the same level of expertise established by the employer’s existing experts, with the progress towards mastery tracked, documented and reported monthly.”
“I like to partner with educational institutions such as Tri-Rivers Career Center whenever possible to better align all of their good work in preparing workers’ foundation skills, industry-general and industry-specific skills with, now, an employer’s internally structured on-the-job training infrastructure,” said Prigelmeier. “That’s how you continue to build upon the foundation laid and give every candidate an opportunity to succeed – a win for the worker, the employer, the community and region.” Watch the Video