When the National Association For Printing Leadership (NAPL) recently released its list of Management Plus Award winners, two in-plants were among the recipients. Portland General Electric’s Print & Automated Mail Services (PAMS) team received a Management Plus Gold Award, while Washington State Printing & Imaging, part of the state’s new Department of Enterprise Services, earned a Silver Award.
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IPG Editor Bob Neubauer takes a road trip through Oregon, visiting three in-plants along the way.
For the second year in a row, Portland General Electric’s Printing & Automated Mail Services team has been honored with a Gold Management Plus Award from the National Association For Printing Leadership (NAPL). PGE was one of only three Gold Award winners this year, and the only in-plant winner. In fact, the Portland, Ore.-based shop is the only in-plant in the country to earn the award over the past six years.
It is imperative that we develop the people on our teams. HR experts make a distinction between training (improving people's skills in their current job) and development (improving skills for future roles). Both training and development are essential and can be interrelated. We train and develop our people though a two-step process: Education (Learning what to do). Application (Doing what you learned). What follows are 15 specific tools we can use to train and develop our people.