Training

Proper training is the key to sustainable operational excellence. Connors Group delivers innovative trainings to foster business growth and employee success.

From foundational industrial engineering concepts, to advanced lean principles, Connors Group has the training you need to improve your business and further the development of your employees.

Our training team has a proven track record of excellence in delivering workforce planning, continuous improvement, industrial engineering, and people-centric development initiatives.

We have learning options to suit your needs:

Blended classroom-online

100% Classroom

100% Online

On-site or off-site

Our Classes

Change Management

Successfully implementing change is complex. It requires steadfast leadership commitment and thorough planning. This course will introduce your team to the tools, resources, and techniques needed to understand key activities and outcomes to best manage an organizational change event.

Work Measurement

Utilizing the MOST™ technique for work measurement, this course will deliver strategies and tactics to build and apply engineered labor standards to assist your organization in understanding the benefits of work measurement.

MOST™ – Is A Registered Trademark of Accenture.

Strategic Project Roadmapping

Connors Group will train your team to create a Strategic Roadmap and Implementation plan.  A strategic roadmap presents a visual of organizational priorities, timelines and dependencies as a single view. This powerful tool creates the conversations that drive projects and secures resources to achieve organizational strategies.

Workforce Management

Connors Group offers a Workforce Management Academy to educate WFM leaders and administrators on how to maximize the effectiveness of their WFM system. The Academy curriculum is jointly developed with the client based on their exact needs and can include classes on budgeting, forecasting, scheduling, labor models and more.

Lean Education Applications

Connors Group offers a complete Lean curriculum ranging from executive theory to practical application. The course encompasses internal and external source materials, so learners get a full understanding of the concepts.

Performance Management
(OPTIMIZETM)

OPTIMIZETM trains participants to understand and use engineered labor standards as a tool for managing performance. In this interactive training program, participants learn to evaluate conditions needed for workers’ success, using visual strategies to guide, correct, evaluate and motivate error-free performance.

Work Measurement Open Enrollment

The course begins by providing a basic understanding of how activity-based systems fit into the Engineered Labor Standards building life cycle.

Work Measurement: Focusing on Labor Standards Development

March 21 – 23, 2023, @ 09:00 AM – 05:00 PM (EST)

May 16 – 18, 2023, @ 09:00 AM – 05:00 PM (EST)

July 18 – 20, 2023, @ 09:00 AM – 05:00 PM (EST)

September 19 – 21, 2023, @ 09:00 AM – 05:00 PM (EST)

November 7 – 9, 2023 @ 09:00 AM – 05:00 PM (EST)

LaborPro Open Enrollment

This course is designed to provide you with an overview of the LaborPro system and teach the system functions needed to build Engineered Labor Standards and profile your organization.

LaborPro System Training

May 2 – 3, 2023 @ 09:00 AM – 05:00 PM (EST)

August 1 – 2, 2023 @ 09:00 AM – 05:00 PM (EST)

October 31 – November 1, 2023 @ 09:00 AM – 05:00 PM (EST)

LaborPro eLearning Curriculum

This course is designed to provide you with an overview of the LaborPro system and teach the system functions needed to build Engineered Labor Standards and profile your organization.

LaborPro eLearning - On Demand

Ongoing, Self-Paced

Lean Immersion/Strategic Problem Solving/Report Out - Open Enrollment

This course will provide you with an understanding of the philosophy of Lean and how learning the tactics of this methodology will allow you to see work processes differently within your work environment.

Lean Immersion and Strategic Problem Solving

April 11 – 12, 2023 @ 09:00 AM – 05:00 PM (EST)

(in person in Pittsburgh PA)

May 2, 2023 @ 09:00 AM – 12:00 PM (EST)

(Report Out via Microsoft Teams)

August 22 – 23, 2023 @ 09:00 AM – 05:00 PM (EST)

(in person in Pittsburgh PA)

September 12, 2023 @ 09:00 AM – 12:00 PM (EST)

(Report Out via Microsoft Teams)

Leadership Academy - Open Enrollment

This course is designed to help transform Managers into empowered, committed Leaders. This intense, interactive training program gives participants the forum to hone key leadership abilities that will help them have a direct impact on employee performance.

Leadership Academy

June 19 – 23, 2023 @ 09:00 AM – 05:00 PM (EST)

September 25 – 29, 2023 @ 09:00 AM – 05:00 PM (EST)

Professional Development

Our suite of Professional Development offerings will help to enhance the key soft skills required in the business world.  To achieve success in a high performing work environment, it is critical that Leaders are able to manage their emotions, build productive working relationships, understand how to navigate difficult conversations, and learn how to enhance their productivity through time management and personal accountability.

Emotional Intelligence

February 23, 2023 @ 01:00 PM – 05:00 PM (EST)

July 27, 2023 @ 01:00 PM – 05:00 PM (EST)

Personal Effectiveness

May 25, 2023 @ 01:00 PM – 05:00 PM (EST)

October 26, 2023 @ 01:00 PM – 05:00 PM (EST)

Developing Positive Relationships

March 23, 2023 @ 01:00 PM – 05:00 PM (EST)

August 24, 2023 @ 01:00 PM – 05:00 PM (EST)

Navigating Difficult Conversations

April 20, 2023 @ 01:00 PM – 05:00 PM (EST)

September 21, 2023 @ 01:00 PM – 05:00 PM (EST)

Professional Develpoment Training - Bundles

Professional Develpoment Training - Bundles

Select 4 Dates @ 01:00 PM – 05:00 PM (EST)

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