This new and fully subsidized program for manufacturing firms with fewer than 10 employees is what every Philadelphia-based maker or micro manufacturer needs to evolve and take their business to a new form. Offered in partnership with the Community College of Philadelphia. This course is only open to manufacturers located in Philadelphia.
Course Outcomes
During this four-week training course, attendees will take part in half-day sessions to discuss:
The program’s 6 sessions will provide an evolutionary roadmap for each participating company and introduce the following concepts:
- Leadership Essentials for Leveling Up
- Business Strategy, Scaling Up & Defining Your “Way Forward”
- Marketing & Sales 101- The Basics for Growth
- PDCA- Plan, Do, Check & Act Performance Management
- Visual Controls & Other Easy Ways to Measure Your Results
- Creating a Culture of Continuous Improvement
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Who Should Take This Course
DVIRC has created this program to put Philadelphia makers and micro manufacturers with fewer than 10 employees on a path towards sustainable growth.
Ways to Take This Course
Virtual Training • In Person Training • On-Demand Training
Six Half-day Sessions
The program’s 6 sessions will provide an evolutionary roadmap for each participating company and introduce the following concepts:
- Leadership Essentials for Leveling Up
- Business Strategy, Scaling Up & Defining Your “Way Forward”
- Marketing & Sales 101- The Basics for Growth
- PDCA- Plan, Do, Check & Act Performance Management
- Visual Controls & Other Easy Ways to Measure Your Results
- Creating a Culture of Continuous Improvement
Why Manufacturing Level Up Training?
Small businesses often lack the time, experience, and structure it takes to adopt best practices. This is especially true for firms with fewer than 10 employees. “Level Up” Manufacturing is a right-sized program that will train and help participants implement the tools and tactics behind some of the world most successful companies.
In this virtual course, small teams from noncompeting manufacturers meet weekly for 6 weeks to adopt a Plan, Do Check and Act (PDCA) approach towards business management, operations, and growth.
It provides a highly interactive experience with subject matter expert-led lessons and corresponding manufacturing-based case studies. It features ideation exercises and tools that enable participants to design and implement a vision and growth strategy as unique as their business.
Throughout the program, participants will share individual successes, concerns, failures, and opportunities related to managing their business. During these exchanges, tactics and best practices will be revealed to help make the most of a given situation.
Utilizing a “learn today, apply tomorrow” approach, “Level Up” MFG is sure to be hugely influential as you work to transition your vision into a prosperous reality.
The DVIRC Difference
Since 1988, DVIRC has worked with over 8,000 individual small business owners and executives, helping them plan for, position themselves for, and pursue growth. Our experiences have led us to create a Plan, Do, Check, Act (PDCA) approach towards leadership, strategy, culture, growth, and operations.
No other resource in the region has the background, experience, and tools accelerate change like DVIRC.
Benefits of Manufacturing Level Up Training
This program is the first and only of its kind, designed exclusively to help makers and micro manufacturers understand and adopt best practices for: leadership, strategy, operations, and growth.
Participants will learn directly from the region’s leading manufacturing experts and take away a working knowledge of management tools that can be easily applied to drive strategic focus, revenue growth, cost savings, quality improvements, and universally higher performance.
Level Up Manufacturing is like an express MBA program designed solely for small and midsized manufacturing leaders in the City of Philadelphia who are looking to take their business to new heights!
Participants are guaranteed to benefit from the mentorship, peer to peer knowledge transfer, and incredible amount of motivation that this program offers.
Meet Your Instructor
Chris Sarfario
President
Chris Scafario is the President of DVIRC. Working in Philadelphia and across the nation’s Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP) Chris supports the advancement of small to mid-sized manufacturers (SMMs) and their supply chain through leading the design, implementation, and oversight of consulting services in operational excellence, top-line growth, and business management.
Request On-Demand Training
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