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Season's Greetings to everyone! As we look back over the year for the BWA, we have much to be thankful for and proud of. New initiatives have been launched to help our industry, and our membership continues to grow. Some highlights of 2018 include: Membership now approaching 130 member companies Export development project to IMM Show Cologne, Germany 4 Quarterly Networking Events Launch of the BWA Lean Road Map program with 3 public training events and in-house projects Launch of the BWA Sandler Sales training program with 3 public training events and in-house projects 2 Plant Tour Kaizen events Launch...
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Season’s Greetings to everyone! As we look back over the year for the BWA, we have much to be thankful for and proud of. New initiatives have been launched to help our industry, and our membership continues to grow. Some highlights of 2018 include: Membership now approaching 130 member companies Export development project to IMM Show Cologne, Germany 4 Quarterly Networking Events Launch of the BWA Lean Road Map program with 3 public training events and in-house projects Launch of the BWA Sandler Sales training program with 3 public training events and in-house projects 2 Plant Tour Kaizen events Launch...
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Thursday, December 6th Bluewater Wood Alliance manufacturers assembled at the Kitchener Public Library for in-depth training on Lean Manufacturing. What does Toyota, Lean and Woodworking all have in common? For one full day, the BWA brought in Lean Training Specialists Sepp Gmeiner of Lignum Consulting & Brad Cairns of Center for Lean Learning & Best Damn Doors spent the day training in detail how the principles of Lean relate to wood manufacturing. A recurrent reaction to Lean is “I don’t think it can work for...
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Sepp Gmeiner & Brad Cairns highlight Lean Manufacturing with an in-depth look. Thursday, December 6th Bluewater Wood Alliance manufacturers assembled at the Kitchener Public Library for in-depth training on Lean Manufacturing. What does Toyota, Lean and Woodworking all have in common? For one full day, the BWA brought in Lean Training Specialists Sepp Gmeiner of Lignum Consulting & Brad Cairns of Center for Lean Learning & Best Damn Doors spent the day training in detail how the principles of Lean relate to wood manufacturing. A recurrent reaction to Lean is “I don’t think it can work for me, I’m too custom.”...
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By Andrew Wall, Sandler Training Milton Do you remember when your business was quite young, you had few staff and sales resulted from your own successful efforts? Then success happened, and you slowly and continuously added more staff and today your sales team is working hard but not accomplishing your growth goals. Sound familiar? It is not too late…let’s get started! Successful companies have a Sales Growth Strategy that the team collectively created and energetically is executing. Knowing who are your best customers helps you to focus your prospecting efforts on more of these great clients. Believing in best practices, you invested in...
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By Andrew Wall, Sandler Training Milton Do you remember when your business was quite young, you had few staff and sales resulted from your own successful efforts? Then success happened, and you slowly and continuously added more staff and today your sales team is working hard but not accomplishing your growth goals. Sound familiar? It is not too late…let’s get started! Successful companies have a Sales Growth Strategy that the team collectively created and energetically is executing. Knowing who are your best customers helps you to focus your prospecting efforts on more of these great clients. Believing in best practices, you invested in...
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[av_heading tag='h3' padding='10' heading='Owners, leaders travelled from all across Southwestern Ontario to the Ron Joyce Center in Burlington for the Bluewater Wood Alliance’s annual winter Quarterly Networking Event – November 21st, 2018.' color='' style='blockquote modern-quote' custom_font='' size='' subheading_active='' subheading_size='15' custom_class=''][/av_heading] [av_textblock size='' font_color='' color=''] The Bluewater Wood Alliance themed the winter Networking Event with fundamental current issues affecting manufacturers today. The event addressed the topics of Employee Culture and Motivation, Cannabis Policy and Procedure in the workplace and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Systems – the next step towards Industry 4.0. Brad Cairns, Managing Partner of the Center for Lean Learning...
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Owners, leaders travelled from all across Southwestern Ontario to the Ron Joyce Center in Burlington for the Bluewater Wood Alliance’s annual winter Quarterly Networking Event – November 21st, 2018. The Bluewater Wood Alliance themed the winter Networking Event with fundamental current issues affecting manufacturers today. The event addressed the topics of Employee Culture and Motivation, Cannabis Policy and Procedure in the workplace and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Systems – the next step towards Industry 4.0. Brad Cairns, Managing Partner of the Center for Lean Learning with Andrew Wall, President of Sandler Sales Miltonprovided an empowering talk about how our workplace...
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By Andrew Wall, Sandler Training As the President or Business owner are you "Too Loyal" to your staff or is your staff "Too Loyal" to you? Ask yourself…are your best employees leaving for better opportunities, are you struggling to accomplish your tasks, projects, and goals on time, do new employees come and shortly leave? If you answered yes to one or more of these questions you are accepting Staff Mediocrity. Successful and growing companies require B+/A Players to fuel the growth. When you grow and develop your staff into B+/A Players or adopt a B+/A Player recruiting mentality, your business becomes more profitable. Stronger...
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By Andrew Wall, Sandler Training As the President or Business owner are you “Too Loyal” to your staff or is your staff “Too Loyal” to you? Ask yourself…are your best employees leaving for better opportunities, are you struggling to accomplish your tasks, projects, and goals on time, do new employees come and shortly leave? If you answered yes to one or more of these questions you are accepting Staff Mediocrity. Successful and growing companies require B+/A Players to fuel the growth. When you grow and develop your staff into B+/A Players or adopt a B+/A Player recruiting mentality, your business becomes more profitable. Stronger...
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