Eugene’s Table, Knowledge Waits Consulting, and Northwest Food Solutions are teaming up to offer a 5 part workshop series for founders, managers and aspiring managers at emerging brands and other small to mid sized food and beverage manufacturing companies.
Taking a Different Approach
Growing People informs, engages, and prepares participants to tackle challenges and adapt to the constantly changing landscape we face today in manufacturing. The workshop series will help participants build sustainable programs within their companies while empowering them to continue growing these programs after our “class” has ended. To this growth mindset, we are adding a virtual mentoring community and opportunities to participate in real life, solutioning projects to continue to build new skills through ongoing cohort activities. Our ultimate goal is to develop a stronger, more resilient workforce that can continue to tackle the challenges of everyday manufacturing against the backdrop of crises both large and small.
The Program
This five part series provides 60 hours of training (12 hours per workshop) that earns participants a Certificate in Food and Beverage Manufacturing Management. Workshops include:
Safe Workplace: Transforming Culture
Production Effectiveness - Daily Management
Making the Workplace Visual
Problem Solving
Getting Food Safety into Your Culture
The program also includes:
Workshops can be taken à la carte or as an entire five part series (note: certificate only included for those that complete the entire series)
Professional and expert developed curriculum and materials tailored to specific needs of participants
Interactive workshops and coaching methods that engage employees in the solutioning process.
Access to a virtual mentoring community.
One-on-one coaching provided by Growing Oregon facilitators between workshop sessions.
Materials are most relevant to those working at companies with at least 3 FTE and no more than 300 FTE.
Cohort is small to ensure individual questions and needs are addressed.
Pricing
Growing People workshops are being offered at a substantial discount due to generous sponsorship provided by Lane Workforce Partnership.
Eugene’s Table Members
À la carte Workshop - $95 | Entire Workshop Series including Certificate - $475
Standard Pricing (non-members)
À la carte Workshop - $395 | Entire Workshop Series including Certificate - $1775
Registration
To begin the registration process, please fill out an Interest Form. There are limited seats available in each workshop and we want to ensure that you and your company invest in the best experience possible. After we receive your interest form, we will get back in touch to confirm your seats and process payment.
We ask that each participant fill out their own interest form to request a seat in their desired workshops.
Eugene's Table members will be given priority placement.
Interest Forms must be completed before registration closes on Friday, March 5th.
Please send questions to micah@eugenestable.org.
Workshop Details
All content is delivered in a virtual format with live instruction, student interaction, coaching and relevant project work between classes. Students will complete an assigned project as part of the coursework.
Each workshop is 2 sessions, 3.5 hours each with a week in between each session. All sessions are scheduled on Wednesdays from 8:30am - Noon
Workshop 1: Safe Workplace: Transforming Culture
Instructor: Cheryl Collins | Dates: March 10 and March 17, 2021
Peter Drucker famously said: “Culture Eats Strategy For Breakfast". Is Culture Eating or Feeding Your Organization? Culture is the underlying force that’s either helping or hindering your organization. But culture is often misunderstood. Culture is NOT simply “the way we do things around here.” It’s essence is in our underlying beliefs and assumptions. It drives our behaviors on a daily basis. Whether creating a physically or psychologically safe workplace, understanding our culture is key. Culture is a system that cannot be quickly changed, but if understood, it can be transformed.
Using interactive learning techniques, this workshop will prepare you to:
Understand organizational culture and the role it plays in your company
Identify elements that are impacting your culture
Determine effective methods for assessing and transforming your culture
Understand the importance and impact of psychological safety
Workshop 2: Production Effectiveness - Daily Management
Instructor: Teri Danielson | Dates: March 31 and April 7, 2021
Taiichi Ohno of Toyota is quoted as saying, “People should not go to a job to work, they should go there to think.” Daily Management is about taking time each day to engage people in thinking about their workplace and identifying, prioritizing, and solving problems that will make manufacturing products more effective. In this workshop, students will learn how to implement a Daily Management system in their own workplace and how to link daily improvements to company objectives and customer needs.
Using interactive learning techniques, this workshop will prepare you to:
Understand how Daily Management Systems can improve production effectiveness
Tie company True North and Objectives to Daily Management metrics.
Develop and implement a Daily Huddle and an Improvement Board
Understand how to support a Daily Management System
Workshop 3: Making the Workplace Visual
Instructor: Teri Danielson | Dates: April 14 and April 21, 2021
Does your workplace speak to you? Does it tell you how to do the work and what needs to happen next? Imagine what your workplace might be like if there were visual cues that supported the performance of the day-to-day work and resulted in a more efficient process with less waste. In this workshop students will learn how to go about setting up, organizing, and implementing a visual workplace.
Using interactive learning techniques, this workshop will prepare you to:
Understand principles of visual thinking
Learn to organize the workplace using 5S
Practice using mapping tools to eliminate waste in a process
Develop a daily improvement practice
Workshop 4: Problem Solving
Instructor: Cheryl Collins | Dates: April 28 and May 5, 2021
Albert Einstein famously said: “If I had an hour to solve a problem, I’d spend 55 minutes thinking about the problem and 5 minutes thinking about solutions.” For many people, the inverse is more accurate. When we identify a problem we immediately jump to a solution, rarely slowing down to ask if we are solving the right problem, if we understand the root cause of the problem, and if our solution actually worked. We have become conditioned to believe that the existence of problems in the workforce is a bad thing. What if it isn’t? We need to start rethinking our approach to problem solving. The goal should not be to eliminate the existence of problems, but rather to develop a robust team of problem solvers.
Using interactive learning techniques, this workshop will prepare you to:
Understand the important and helpful role problems play in the workforce
Understand the root cause analysis approach
Properly identify and define problems
Apply different tools to understand root causes to problems
Define and utilize metrics to demonstrate improvement
Workshop 5: Getting Food Safety into Your Culture
Instructor: Teri Danielson | Dates: May 12 and May 19, 2021
It has been said, what we know and what we believe is of little consequence. It is what we do that is important. When it comes to food safety, this point is certainly true. Frank Yiannas, deputy commissioner of the FDA, has become a vocal proponent of the importance of behavior and culture in creating a safe food supply chain. In this workshop, students will learn how to put in place key practices and behaviors in place to support production of safe food, while implementing a robust internal audit system, food safety team and corrective action practice.
Using interactive learning techniques, this workshop will prepare you to:
Understand how company culture impacts food safety
Develop a food safety team using Daily Management
Implement food safety practices visually
Utilize tools like internal audit, corrective action and improvement boards to improve
Interest Forms must be completed before registration closes on Friday, March 5th.
Please send questions to micah@eugenestable.org.
Instructor Bios
Teri Danielson is the co-founder and owner of Northwest Food Solutions where she helps clients implement improvements in supply chain and food safety. She has 30+ years’ experience in operations and quality leadership roles, including 13 years at Starbucks Coffee Company and Tazo Tea Company and is an instructor at Portland State University's Center for Executive and Professional Education. Teri holds a B.S. in Microbiology from Oregon State University and a Project Management certificate from Portland State University.
Cheryl Collins has more than 15 years’ experience building and nurturing organizational cultures. Her work experience includes Teach For America, Oregon Community Credit Union and Ninkasi Brewing Company, holding key roles including director of operations, VP of organizational development, chief people officer, and CEO. She has a B.S. in Political Science from University of Oregon and a Master’s in organizational leadership from Gonzaga University.
Interest Forms must be completed before registration closes on Friday, March 5th.
Please send questions to micah@eugenestable.org.