Our podcast co-host and Learning SME, Tara Holwegner, brings her passion and knowledge about workforce development to explain why manufacturing facilities should view competency-based training as a necessity for those organizations looking to become world-class leaders. Tara also explains her process to achieving competency and how that approach is closing the skills gap.

Discussion highlights include:

• Defining competency and how it's helping the bottom line
• 70/20/10 model for learning and development
• 3A Learning process for building competency
• On-the-job examples

Additional Resources:

• Learning Impact Map (web resource)
• Powered by Rx (online resource portal)
• 3A Learning - Align, Assimilate, Apply (article)
• Closing the Manufacturing Workforce Skills Gap (IndustryWeek article)
• Tara Holwegner on LinkedIn