Season 9 Episode 3 - Providing Higher Quality Jobs to Attract Higher Quality Workers

Episode Show Notes Episode 3 features NIST Baldrige Performance Excellence Program Manager Dr. Kelly Welsh and CMTC Quality Practice Lead Eliot Dratch. Kelly and Eliot explain ...

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Season 8 Episode 2 - State of the Economy: Navigating the “Stimulus Hangover”

Episode Show Notes Episode 2 features Christopher Thornberg, Ph.D., Founding Partner at Beacon Economics LLC. Christopher discusses the current state of the economy and what he ...

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Season 8 Episode 3 - Continuous Improvement Through the MBNQA Framework

Episode Show Notes Episode 3 features three executives from Mizuho OSI – Steve Lamb, Kevin Thorne, and Bill Bregar – as well as Denise Shields, Principal of the Shields Resource ...

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Season 6 Episode 2 - The Current State of Employment & Competitiveness in California Manufacturing

Episode Show Notes Episode 2 features Beacon Economics Research Manager Taner Osman. Taner discusses the current state of California manufacturing, particularly in terms of ...

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Season 2 Episode 3 - Economic Outlook in the Wake of the Pandemic

Episode Show Notes Episode 3 features Christopher Thornberg, Ph.D., Founding Partner at Beacon Economics LLC. Christopher explains how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected different ...

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Season 2 Episode 1 - A Closer Look at Apprenticeships

Episode Show Notes Episode 1 features Matthew McKenney, President & CEO of the Institute for American Apprenticeships (IAA), and Mace Gjerman, the Technical Training Manager ...

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Season 1 Episode 5 - Upskilling Your Manufacturing Workforce with Apprenticeships

Episode Show Notes In this episode, Gregg is joined by Jose Anaya, who oversees the Community Advancement Division and Business Training Center at El Camino College, and Tiffany ...

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Season 1 Episode 2 - Developing a Comprehensive Workplace Safety Plan in 2021

Episode Show Notes In this episode, Gregg discusses workplace safety with Eliot Dratch, CMTC’s Senior Quality Consultant. What was once perceived as a mundane, fairly innocuous ...

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