Training vital for survival of traditional industry
15-02-2007
UK firm Celloglas has enlisted the help of a training and development company after it was recently acquired by an American private investment firm.
The Leeds based company will be supported by Dale Carnegie through its transitory stage, during which it will have to adjust to a new management structure.
According to Onrec.com, managers at Celloglas were not prepared for the added responsibility and increased accountability that the changes in structure meant for them.
Celloglas, the UK's largest decorative print finishing company, realised that basic management and employee training was a necessity.
Six directors now partake in the executive development programme - and the 400 staff members go through a six-week business development and improvement course, all on a quarterly basis.
Richard Pinkney, operations director at Celloglas, commented: "Those managers who have attended have each gained something different.
"It has been a gradual shift of attitude and awareness of how their behaviour and attitude affects their own performance and the performance of others.
"Finding good machinery is easy, but finding good managers and staff isn't so easy - we are committed to working with the team we have grown with to develop their skills for the future."
Manufacturing - such as the traditional industries - accounts for 26 per cent of the UK's GDP.
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