Leadership

In today’s challenging manufacturing landscape, strong leadership skills are essential for success. Empower your team leaders with MRC’s leadership training for the manufacturing industry. From supervisory to executive levels, our programs develop and enhance core leadership skills to tackle challenges such as the manufacturing skills gap and employee retention. Thrive in the next phase of advanced manufacturing with MRC’s expertise by your side.

CEO Forum

CEO Forum

MRC offers this CEO Forum for executive leaders with a strong emphasis on problem solving and best practices. The Forum is an opportunity to meet with other decision-makers in a confidential setting to share common growth concerns and challenges.

CFO Forum

CFO Forum

MRC offers a CFO Forum for senior financial executives with a strong emphasis on content. Meet with other financial professionals in a confidential setting to share common challenges. This non-competitive peer group provides a platform for area CFOs to learn, share, and develop action plans and strategies through interactive meetings augmented by expert guest speakers who are recognized authorities. 

Customer Experience

Customer Service Experience

When you invest in customer service training for your employees, they understand how their role affects the company’s success and it motivates them to increase the quality of their engagements with customers. MRC’s comprehensive customer service training program offers a range of benefits, including higher employee motivation, increased customer satisfaction, loyalty, and retention, and ultimately, more profits.

HR Forum

HR Forum

MRC’s HR Forum provides an exclusive opportunity for HR leaders to engage in interactive discussions, sharing best practices, and exchanging ideas and strategies. Led by an experienced facilitator, the forum ensures a well-rounded experience through a balance of open forum segments, informative guest speakers, and real-world case studies. Legislative updates and discussions are also incorporated where relevant to provide comprehensive insights into the industry.

Interplay

Interplay

INTERPLAY™ A business acumen simulation that gives your leaders the critical skills they need to understand planning, operations, finance, and strategy.

In today’s increasingly decentralized, networked, globalized, time-challenged businesses, leaders and managers must continually improve the level of their game.

Manager Essentials

Manager Essentials

MRC’s Manager Essentials program is designed to provide mid-level managers with the tools and skills necessary to effectively lead and manage teams. We offer a unique blend of classroom training and hands-on practice sessions in a simulated manufacturing environment to ensure that participants are equipped to handle the challenges of real-world management situations.

Manufacturing Leadership Institute (MLI)

Manufacturers Leadership Institute MLI

For more than a decade, MRC has provided a leadership certificate program for the region’s current and up-and-coming leaders. The Manufacturing Leadership Institute (MLI) program has graduated more than 300 participants, helping them to enhance their skills, strengthen their companies’ competitiveness, drive growth, and create sustainable business models that lead them into the future.

Onboarding

Onboarding

In today’s competitive job market, a positive onboarding experience is crucial to attracting, developing, and retaining top talent. Unfortunately, many employees report dissatisfaction with their onboarding process, with some even leaving their jobs because of it.

Project Management

Training and Certifications Project Management

MRC’s Project Management Training For Real World Applications will teach the basics of project management terminology, creating a project charter, defining project scope, developing a project plan & work breakdown structures (WBS) using MS Project, and leading and communicating with teams.

Supervisor Boot Camp | Leadership Fundamentals

Supervisor Training

Supervisor Boot Camp | Leadership Fundamentals is the ultimate program for companies seeking to transform their supervisors into exceptional leaders. This intensive five half-day program, developed by MRC, covers key supervisory skills in both classroom and hands-on settings.

Supervisor Boot Camp Level II | Take Your Team to the Next Level

Training and Events

Leadership development is a journey. After a solid foundation of Supervisor Boot Camp Leadership Fundamentals, Supervisor Boot Camp Level II delivers a comprehensive development program of next-level topics.

Train the Trainer

Train the Trainer

Effective training is a crucial aspect of talent development and retention. More than merely an informational download, it’s a strategic, well-defined plan facilitated by knowledgeable trainers who know how to engage and motivate learners for the best possible experience and outcome.

Vital Leader Roundtable

Vital Leader Roundtable

Vital Leader Roundtable is a workshop series designed to prepare teams of manufacturing and (or) distribution company leaders, to drive short-term profitable growth.

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Training and Certifications

MRC provides far more than certifications and funding assistance. We offer job creators access to specialized coaching, mentorship and a variety of business and marketing assistance normally outside the reach of most manufacturers.

Solutions

No matter what’s happening with your business, MRC has probably seen it. We know the problems that keep CEOs up at night, and we know how to help solve them. Our staff has more than 100 years of combined experience working side-by-side with business owners to evaluate, strategize, discover and implement solutions that address both strategic growth needs and organizational transformation.

Training & Events Calendar

MRC breaks down the barriers that prohibit manufacturers from realizing their full potential. Our proven tactics and methods can help nearly any company at nearly any stage of its evolution. Whatever the hurdle – going green, becoming lean, entering new markets, rebranding the company – MRC can help you clear it.

Workforce Initiatives

Developing Future Workforce with programs like: What’s So Cool About Manufacturing®, PA Dream Team, the Inside Manufacturing Series, and Manufacturing Day.

Resources

Through our partnerships, we are able to bring the horsepower of the best-in-breed experts to you. Imagine having access to the second-largest technology institute in the world, a corps of ex-Toyota executives trained under the best Lean practitioners in the world or world-renowned business strategy groups. MRC makes it possible.

About Us

For over 30 years, Manufacturers Resource Center (MRC) has helped small and mid-sized manufacturers become more competitive, adopt lean and agile processes, strategically grow their companies and invest more effectively in their existing human capital.

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