Southern Idaho Manufacturer's Alliance

Saturday, February 05, 2011

By: Emerge Leadership Group

The Southern Idaho Manufacturers Alliance and the Twin Falls Area Chamber of Commerce is sponsoring a meeting of its members to discuss needs and issues pertaining to leadership and employee development.  As pressure mounts on manufacturers to do more with less, more and more they look to their leaders for solutions.  The unfortunate problem is that not all the people with titles happen to be fully functioning as leaders are expected.  More often, people with management titles are asked to wear so many hats, including that of chief "doer of the work," that the important leadership functions go undone.

The meeting of the Alliance is to discuss this and related topics.  As a keynote, the Alliance has brought Kristoffer Kristensen, Ph.D., from Emerge Leadership Group to present and moderate a discussion with Alliance leaders on this topic. He will discuss curriculum provided by Emerge in assisting front-line workers transition successfully to management roles. Following the presentation, there will be an open discussion from the group on whether a coordinated effort to provide this training broadly to the manufacturing industry in our area would be beneficial to the participants.

This luncheon meeting will be held on Friday, February 11, 2011, from 12noon to 1:30pm at the Turf Club in Twin Falls, Idaho.

Participants at this event should expect to participate in a discussion of the business demands and needs of manufactures and how they can address issues of leadership development.  Once leaders receive the appropriate development, they can not only act in many capacities (from leader to "doer"), but also participate in the high-impact leadership-oriented and strategic activities needed of them.

For more information on Emerge, please contact us.

For more information on the Alliance and the WIRED Initiative, check out their website here and here.

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