Boosting Employee Productivity
A good manager or lead employee can make all the difference on your operation floor in terms of productivity. Laura Stack of HR resource website TLNT provides tips for leaders to build a more positive and more productive work environment. Track productivity. You can’t manage if you are not tracking and measuring your team’s productivity. This will allow you to not only stay on track but see where challenges exist and what areas need help or attention. Ask for feedback. Regularly ask employees for their thoughts on how to improve processes on the floor. They may be able to alert…
Career Tips for New Grads
June is the season of graduations and the start of new careers for many young people. Perhaps your job search is well underway, maybe you even landed that first job, or maybe you are just starting your hunt. Regardless, finding a career that is right for you is important to your success and well-being. We’ve compiled some tips to help you out. Author Clara Shih writes for LinkedIn, “Don’t choose a job just because it is the most sought-after.” Sure, some jobs look great on the outside and perhaps your classmates actively hope and apply for these positions –…
Building a Team not Just a Group
In precision manufacturing every day you can see the positive results of true teamwork to your operation. But what makes a team operate well, what makes a group of employees work together with a sense of purpose and community and how can you elevate your group to a team? Jim Sisson writes for the Minneapolis/St Paul Business Journal, “A team is a group of people who share a common team purpose and a number of challenging goals. Members of the team are mutually committed to the goals and to each other. This mutual commitment also creates joint accountability which creates…
Improve Your Onboarding Process
In today’s talent market, many companies thrilled to have filled key positions may forget the onboarding process for new hires is an important first step in long-term retention. The onboarding process is an employee’s first impression on what it will “actually” be like to work at your company. Is your onboarding program organized or on-the- fly, do you encourage connections between new hires and employees, do you stagger training or do you load it on all at once? Human Resources expert Maya Townsend shares tips to improve your onboarding process in a recent Inc article. Start before they start. Is…
5 Tips for Attracting Talent
The State of Manufacturing survey conducted by Enterprise Minnesota interviewed 400 Minnesota manufacturers and those executives rated the ability to attract and retain workers as their 3rd most concerning issue. The survey also found that 47% of manufacturers are looking for employees with technical skills and experience. With the local talent pool tight, what are some tips to attract the employees you desire when you find them. Scott Span of HR resource site TLNT provides tips to attract talent: Provide career navigation from the start. To begin developing your plan interview current employees on what attracted them to your company,…
Making a Career Choice: Choose Minnesota Manufacturing
Here at MPS Technical we are well aware of the great career opportunities precision manufacturing and medtech firms in the Twin Cities offer. Whether you are an engineer, operations manager, machinist, assembler or in customer service, a seasoned professional or just out of college, the Twin Cities and greater Minnesota manufacturing industry delivers a variety of exciting and rewarding careers. Today, we have gathered recent state-wide industry news to help you see the possibilities as well! First up, readers of medical device industry publication Qmed voted Minneapolis/St. Paul into 2nd place for “Top U.S. City for MedTech Innovation”. From the…