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Change Management Programs by Prosci
Leading People
Maintenance Planning and Scheduling

Materials Management

Planning for Shutdowns, Turnarounds and Outages
Predictive Maintenance Technologies
Reliability and Operations Excellence
Reliability Engineering Excellence
Reliability Excellence Application
Reliability Excellence for Managers
Risk-Based Asset Management
Root Cause Analysis
Speed of Trust® Simulation
Train-the-Trainer

Change Management Programs by Prosci

The number one factor contributing to the success of a major change project is effective management of the people side of change. Build competency in change management by participating in a top-tier training program which utilizes best practices research from more than 2,000 companies worldwide.
Available programs include:

1/2-Day Change Management Sponsor Course
1-Day Change Management Coaching Course
1-Day Change Management Employee Orientation
3-Day Change Management Certification Course

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Leading People

Are you expected to lead people to produce results? Avoid the mistakes that can stand in the way of success by learning and practicing tools and techniques that will make you a more effective leader. In this course you’ll learn how to build trust, create results through performance feedback, resolve conflict, plan effective meetings, create communication strategies and deliver successful presentations. You’ll return to the job with renewed confidence in your leadership abilities.
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Maintenance Planning and Scheduling

Is your company eager to reap the benefits of efficiently planned maintenance – benefits like lower material costs, decreased overtime and decreased repair costs? You’ll return from this five-day class with a thorough understanding of what you can do to reap those benefits. You’ll discover how to coordinate the roles and responsibilities of maintenance supervisors and planners and how to sustain management’s commitment and support. You’ll master scheduling and coordinating work effectively and learn the best ways to handle common maintenance problems, delays and inefficiencies.
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Materials Management

You’ll get a much better return on your inventory investment when you apply the sound storeroom operations principles that you will learn in this three-day class. Life Cycle Engineering’s materials management gurus will help you create a materials management master plan that includes key elements like kitting best practices, KPIs for storerooms and purchasing, ABC analysis and effective work control processes.
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Planning for Shutdowns, Turnarounds and Outages

Master the basics of shutdowns, turnarounds and outages after attending this 3-day class. Reduce unnecessary costs by properly planning, executing and closing your shutdown. Participate in exercises such as analyzing your previous shutdowns, creating a timeline, planning lead time, and estimating costs, all designed to help you save time and money on your next shutdown. Optimize the process by discovering new tools and technologies that will create a backbone for effective plant maintenance and reliability. Walk out with a master checklist detailing the tasks for your next project.
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Predictive Maintenance Technologies

It’s important for you and your organization to understand what technologies are being applied to your asset base and why. Most companies schedule maintenance based upon statistical trends or breakdowns/failures. But this five-day course will show you how to reduce costs and improve your products by using factual data that reflect actual operating condition of equipment and need for maintenance. Implementing a predictive (PdM) program to increase your maintenance operation’s effectiveness is the key to achieving those goals. 
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Reliability and Operations Excellence

This course is developed and delivered by Ron Moore, celebrated author and world-renowned expert in reliability and operational excellence.

Ever wonder how the world’s best Operations achieve their performance levels? Participate in this two-day workshop as we uncover the models for achieving Operations Excellence and how the best plants are able to maximize output and minimize costs using Reliability principles. During this class we will demonstrate how the relentless pursuit of defect elimination, asset productivity and workforce engagement will help you deliver dramatic competitive advantage - with increased plant capability, lower unit costs, and superior safety, environmental and quality performance.
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Reliability Engineering Excellence

The Reliability Engineer (RE) is the business advisor to facility maintenance and production. This strategic position is responsible for evaluating and predicting performance to achieve the greatest asset utilization at the lowest total cost of ownership. The RE sees all aspects of proper plant function, puts equipment first, and makes decisions based on how machines function and their impact on production. Just as a business advisor must balance policy and diplomacy, the RE must be dedicated to preserving asset reliability and managing risk. 
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Reliability Excellence Application

This is a dynamic 3-day, high-impact, interactive workshop where participants will experience the fundamental concepts of Reliability Excellence in order to drive performance improvement efforts within your organization.The class is a learning process that begins with a clear understanding of the learning objectives, behavior change expectations and desired performance improvement results. Then you will learn the tools and processes required to develop, implement and sustain word-class maintenance and reliability programs.
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Reliability Excellence for Managers

If you’re a manager engaged in process improvement initiatives, then Reliability Excellence for Managers is designed for you. You’ll discover the tools necessary to develop, implement and sustain world-class maintenance and reliability programs. Delivered in four three-day sessions, this series engages participants with activities that reinforce the skills in each preceding workshop. Sharing experiences with your fellow class participants, you’ll learn how to build the foundation of reliability to set the stage for process improvement initiatives and reduce maintenance costs with proven and sustainable reliability tools.
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Risk-Based Asset Management

The Risk-Based Asset Management course introduces the value of the asset maintenance plan and its critical role in the asset management strategy. Participants work together to develop an asset maintenance plan. The three-day course concludes by discussing how to marshal the people, processes, data and technologies that make an effective asset maintenance plan.
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Root Cause Analysis

If you’re responsible for problem-solving and improving processes, this three-day class will show you how to stop recurring failures. You’ll learn and practice a method to approach daily problem-solving with proven root cause tools. Unsure which tools to use when? Our RCA experts will help you understand the advantages and disadvantages of different tools and how to use the right one at the right time.
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Speed of Trust® Simulation

The Speed of Trust® teaches participants pragmatic, practical, and actionable skills the learner can implement immediately regardless of his or her role in the organization. This highly interactive Business Simulation engages leaders at all levels in the real work of identifying and closing the trust gaps that exist in many organizations.
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Train-the-Trainer

Train-the-Trainer (TTT) is an intensive, customizable 2½ day class that teaches the competencies required to accelerate understanding, raise retention and achieve buy-in whether you are training, coaching, presenting or leading meetings. During this course, you will acquire tools and techniques that increase learner comprehension, participation and retention.
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