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Build the Skills That Drive Performance and Culture

Unlock Your Team's Potential with Expert-Led Training Sessions

The truth is simple: most leadership training doesn’t work.
It’s too generic, too theoretical, and too far removed from the realities of manufacturing.


Our workshops are different.

These in-person sessions are built for the people running your business — your employees, frontline leaders, supervisors, and managers. We focus on the skills that move the needle: accountability, communication, emotional intelligence, and team performance.


Backed by research. Built on experience.
Delivered by someone who’s actually led high-performing teams in high-pressure industrial environments — not someone who read about it.


This isn’t leadership development to check a box.
It’s leadership that holds people accountable, builds trust, and drives results you can see on the floor.

  • On-site, instructor-led delivery 
  • 1-day or 3-day workshops 
  • Built for the teams who keep your operation running
     

Your people already know how to run machines — now teach them how to lead humans.

The Workshops

One-Day Workshops

Accountability

Strengthen your team's reliability and integrity through our Accountability training. Participants will learn strategies to enhance personal responsibility and consistently deliver quality work, which is vital to gaining trust and respect in any professional setting. Organizations that promote accountability are more successful and more productive. In this one-day workshop, you will learn about accountability, how to promote it in your organization, and how to become more accountable to yourself and others. 

Active Listening

Communication skills are at the heart of everything we do each day, whether at home, at work, or at play. Active listening encompasses the best of communication, including listening to what others are saying, processing the information, and responding to it to clarify and elicit more information. This one-day workshop will help participants develop and practice their active listening skills. 

Digital Transformation: Organization and People

This course looks at why employees resist change, and how organizational readiness, leadership competencies, and the impact of culture contribute to the implementation of a successful digital transformation initiative. 

Emotional Intelligence

Emotional intelligence, also called EQ (or EI), is the ability to be aware of and to manage emotions and relationships. It is a pivotal factor in personal and professional success. Your EQ, your ability to connect with others and manage your emotions and those of others, will determine your success in life.

When we look at the extraordinary people who inspire and make a difference, you will see that they do this by connecting with people personally and emotionally. What differentiated them was not their IQ but their EQ – their emotional intelligence. This one-day workshop will help you develop your emotional intelligence. 

Employee Recognition

Everyone likes to be recognized for a job well done. Some people want recognition more than others, but it’s all important on some level. It can be doubly important in the workplace, as it keeps employees happy, resulting in a strong business that serves customers well and keeps the bottom line strong. Employee recognition can be a simple but effective tool.

This one-day course looks at the value of recognizing employees and how to carry it out in the workplace, both formally and informally. 

Leadership Skills for Supervisors

Company Leaders represent a vital force in the economy. You can turn on or off the productivity of the people who report to you. You are the crucial interface between employees on the shop floor or the service desk and the organization’s managers. Although you usually have more technical experience than the employees you supervise, you may not have had much leadership experience. This one-day course will give you the skills you need to succeed.

Performance Management

Inspiring someone to be their best is no easy task. Just how do you manage for optimum performance? How do you create a motivating environment that encourages people to go beyond their best? This one-day workshop will give you some of those skills. 

Time Management

Time is money, the saying goes, and lots of it gets lost in disorganization and disruption. We also deal with a constant barrage of technology, people, and tasks that can contribute to that disorganization. Many people find that they flit from one task to another, trying to get everything done, but often falling short. In this one-day workshop, you will learn how to make the most of your time by getting a grip on your workflow and office space, using your planner effectively, and delegating some of your work to others. 

Workplace Skills for Success

There have been several studies that identify the key skills that workers need to be successful. Various studies call them different things - critical employability skills, soft skills, or transferable skills. Regardless of the name, these skills are essential for workplace success. The eight most commonly identified skills are: Being a Productive Team Member, Flexibility, Problem Solving, Resourcefulness, Giving and Receiving Feedback, Self-Confidence, Creative Thinking, and Emotional Intelligence. Many of us already possess one or more of these attributes and perhaps all of them. Luckily, these skills can be improved upon through training. 

This one-day course looks to take you from where you are now to a new understanding of the key skills that will help you succeed at work. 

Three-Day Workshops

Becoming Management Material

This three-day workshop is a tool for your leadership development. It is designed to help you create and accomplish your personal best, and to help you lead others to get extraordinary things done. 

Building High Performance Teams

Success as a manager is heavily influenced by how well a team operates and what results they achieve. Is your team able to solve problems? Can they resolve conflict? Are they enthusiastic and motivated to do their best? Do they work well together? This three-day workshop is designed for participants who want to develop their team leadership skills and unleash the talent of their team members. 

Conducting Effective Performance Reviews

Performance reviews are an essential component of employee development. The performance review meeting is an important aspect of career planning, and the outcomes of the meeting should be known to the employee and supervisor before the meeting takes place. Setting goals and objectives to aim for will give supervisors and employees a focus and is one of the key aspects to meeting overall company objectives. Supervisors must also learn how to provide positive and negative feedback on a regular and timely basis so that employees can grow and develop. Performance appraisals involve all these activities. 

The Professional Supervisor

With many new challenges and responsibilities, new supervisors need training that helps them adjust to their new role. Learning how to supervise your new employees on a trial-and-error basis can lead to discouragement. This three-day workshop can help you overcome many problems a new supervisor may encounter, and set the groundwork for a successful change in your working life! 

Pricing

Simple. Transparent. No licensing fees, no subscriptions, no surprises. 

One-Day Workshop

$4,500
Includes prep, delivery, and all materials for up to 20 participants.
Travel expenses additional outside Arizona. 

Three-Day Workshop

$11,500

Comprehensive training for supervisors or team leads. Built for teams ready to level up.
Includes prep, delivery, and materials for up to 20 participants.
Travel expenses additional outside Arizona. 

Need to train more than 20 people?
We’ll break the group into smaller cohorts and run additional sessions at a flat rate. 

What People Are Saying

Frequently Asked Questions

Please reach us at jim.mayer@themfgconnector.com if you cannot find an answer to your question.

Frontline leaders, supervisors, team leads, and employees moving into leadership roles — especially in manufacturing, industrial, and skilled trades environments. These are for people who actually manage people and processes day to day. 


Yes. The core curriculum is proven, but every session is tailored to your company, industry, and team dynamics. Real examples, real context. 


Up to 20 participants per session. That’s the sweet spot for interaction, discussion, and impact. Larger groups? We’ll break them into cohorts and run additional sessions. 


On-site at your facility, or at a nearby off-site location if you prefer. I deliver in person, where your people actually work. 


Yes — across the U.S. and internationally.
Workshops are delivered in person, wherever your teams are. Travel costs are billed separately and quoted upfront. 


Because I’ve built and led teams in the same environments you’re in. This isn’t academic. It’s real-world, practical, and personal. 


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