COMMUNICATOR
July 2005
The Board
- New Chairman
- Executive Committee
The
Center
- NOCLMC
Mission
WINOC
Partners
- Accuride
- Beckett
- CAMP
- County of Summit Board of MR/DD
- East Regional School Improvement Team
- Goodyear
Well for starters, it's been awhile since WINOC has issued a COMMUNICATOR. In the good old days (a k a before the manufacturing downturn) WINOC's crack staff would periodically produce a six-page tri-fold hardcopy newsletter called the WINOC Communicator. In its rebirth we will stick to two or three pages, provide ample links to additional information, make it available electronically and post it to our website... www.winoc.org.
Also new is our new address (see sidebar). Although we worked cooperatively with Tri-C/WEDD in an informal relationship for nearly two-years, and will continue to do so, in the absence of a formal agreement, and given their need for the space we were in, we have moved on. Since our client work is almost exclusively on-site, not much else is affected by this move.
WINOC's new Chairman, Dr. Hira Fotedar, has been busier than ever with WINOC after his recent retirement from Eaton. He is engaged in strategic planning, new marketing strategies and in promoting WINOC throughout northeast Ohio.
WINOC's Board of Trustees and its Executive Committee is also undergoing change; for example, Dr. Bud Gookins, President of Strategic Quality Consulting in Grafton, Ohio has been recently added to the Board. See the sidebar for the current makeup of WINOC's Board of Trustees Executive Committee.
WINOC, through its Chairman and Vice-Chairman, is participating in the Global Roadmap for Manufacturing in Northeast Ohio project. This project, led by local and Ohio business executives and supported by the Greater Cleveland Partnership and the Cleveland Foundation, is aimed at helping businesses in the region reposition their products and strategies to compete more effectively in the new global marketplace.
WINOC hopes to be a coordinating agency for the implementation of the Roadmap, as funded by the Fund for OUR Economic Future.
The Northeast Ohio Center for Labor Management Cooperation (NOCLMC)
WINOC has been operating the Northeast Ohio Center for Labor Management Cooperation (NOCLMC) since 1986 as part of the Ohio Labor Management Cooperation Program (OLMCP) sponsored through grants from the Ohio Department of Development (ODOD). WINOC was recently awarded increased funding to continue to operate the mission of the Center (see sidebar) for the next two years.
Partnering with nine other grantees across Ohio, WINOC works with management and organized labor to drive quality and productivity improvement through employee involvement. WINOC's labor management cooperation capabilities represent distinctive competencies for northeast Ohio.
In addition other OLMCP grantees across Ohio, WINOC is expanding its network of partners in northeast Ohio. WINOC Advisors such as Rick Bohan (Bohan Associates) and Pat McGreevy (PME Consulting) and others continue to provide valuable services to WINOC clients. In addition WINOC has more recently joined forces with RHS Solutions, Jim Gray of JPG Management Group, Brian Furlong of Lean Enterprises, Inc., Bud Gookins of Strategic Quality Systems and Hira Fotedar (Fotedar and Associates) and others for project specific work.
With our partners we can cover it all: organizational development, assessment, quality systems, risk and safety, Lean Manufacturing, Lean Office, turnaround, employee involvement, creating the high performance enterprise, labor management cooperation, strategic planning. See http://www.winoc.org/services.html for more.
Below is a description of some of our client work thus far in 2005.
| Accuride | In 2005 WINOC completed a major productivity improvement project started last year and has followed through with safety training this year. |
| Akron Public Schools | WINOC has facilitated a significant amount of improvement planning work with the District and with the district's Central Office Departments; in 2005 this work continued with the Human Resources Department of APS. |
| Beckett | WINOC has been engaged in "middle management" training at Beckett in areas of project management, change management and teamwork. |
| CAMP | WINOC is working on three labor management case studies sponsored by CAMP and subsidized by the Ohio Labor Management Cooperation Program (OLMCP). |
| Colfor Manufacturing | Safety training programs to meet OSHA regulations at multiple Colfor plants. |
| County of Summit Board of MR/DD | WINOC is supporting the CSBMR/DD's QUEST quality initiative on areas of visionary leadership, quality planning, manager development, employee involvement and program evaluation. |
| Curtiss Wright | Communications Workshop, Lean Mastery Training & Quote Process VSM |
| East Regional School Improvement Team | Development and deployment of a School Improvement Rubric (SIR) as part of a short-cycle Baldrige-like technical support infrastructure for school buildings. |
| Energizer | Lean Team Facilitator training. |
| Goodyear | Labor & Lean presentation. |
| Lake Local Schools | Baldrige/OAE based assessments, improvement planning and support. |
| Lamson & Sessions | An early implementer of WINOC's Total Quality Process (TQP), Lamson & Sessions was and continues to use WINOC services for assessment and facilitation of TQP. |
| Tri-C/WEDD | Kaizen Facilitator Workshop. |
WINOC and the Northeast Ohio Center for Labor Management Cooperation have moved to new offices at...
445 West Liberty Street,
Suite 225
Medina, Ohio 44256
Tel. 330.725.4885
Fax. 330.721.2933
WINOC Board of Trustees Executive Committee:
Mr.
Richard Acton
Vice
President/Labor Relations
SMA Media Group
Mr. Malvin E. Bank
Partner, Thompson Hine LLP
Mr. Tim Buxton
Education Coordinator
USWA AFL-CIO-CLC
District 1/Subdistrict 1
Dr.
Hira L. Fotedar
Chairman - WINOC
Dr. E. F. (Bud) Gookins
President, Strategic Quality Systems
Mr. Ronald E. Marec
Ohio Federation of Teachers - Retired
Robert P. Meyer
Vice-Chairman - WINOC
Dr. Donald E. Plante
President - WINOC
Mr. Loree K. Soggs
Executive Vice President
Cleveland Building & Construction
Trades Council
Dale E. Stitt
Treasurer - WINOC
Mr. Norm Vernon, Jr.
Principal - Vernon Associates
The Mission of the Center at WINOC
NOCLMC's mission is to serve business, labor, government, healthcare and academia in order to improve the economic climate and competitive position of companies and organizations throughout the state with a focus on northeast Ohio. This mission is accomplished by helping organizations improve productivity and quality through employee involvement and cooperation.
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Contact WINOC WINOC - Work in Northeast Ohio Council 445 West Liberty Street, Suite 225 Medina, Ohio 44256 Tel. 330.725.4885 Fax. 330.721.2933
Or email our staff at AdvServ@winoc.org Dee Holody for Sales and Marketing Bob Meyer for Labor Management and Programs Don Plante for Advisory Services and operations Maty Jo Lupica for financial matters |
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