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Learning Labs: Importance of Performance Feedback

Learning Labs: Importance of Performance Feedback

Please join us online Thursday, November 9 for Importance of Performance Feedback, the final webinar of our Job Quality Learning Labs series for manufacturers. In this session we’ll discuss performance management and how your team can build an empowered workforce.

Sponsored by Workforce Solutions Collaborative of Metro Hartford, Job Quality Learning Labs are free online workshops designed to explore new ways for manufacturers to develop a transformative culture.  

Register for November 9 Webinar

Session 1, June 29
Job Quality: What’s the Hype? 
We’ll define, discuss and help you to understand what this means for your company.

Session 2, August 2 (This session was cancelled)
Supporting the Employee Life Cycle
Come talk best practices that support your employees from recruitment all the way to retirement.

Session 3, Sept. 27
Employee Engagment Surveys
Learn how using the workers’ voice can drive employee satisfaction which leads to better business outcomes.

Session 4, Nov. 9
Importance of Performance Feedback
Let’s discuss performance management and how your team can build an empowered workforce.

 

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Instructor: Monica Perez, People & Culture Manager, CCAT 

Monica Perez is the People and Culture Manager for the Connecticut Center for Advanced Technology.  In this role she works directly with the president and chief executive officer to establish and maintain a positive work environment that aligns with CCAT’s vision, mission, and core values. Her goal is to create an inclusive culture where all employees at all levels have a sense of belonging, feel valued, respected, heard, and supported. She also has over 10 years of experience working for non-profit organizations ranging from program management, overseeing employer and community-based partnerships and coaching others in job quality initiatives. As a leader in workforce development, Monica supports innovative business strategies that yield positive, tangible outcomes for both the employer and their teams. Bringing together her education and military experience, she’s able to use a unique lens to visualize opportunities. Monica is currently a technical sergeant in the Connecticut Air National Guard; she enlisted as a Security Forces member in June of 2008, was a combat arms instructor since 2013, and recently has been selected to become a first sergeant for the Connecticut Air National Guard and is beginning that journey alongside her work at CCAT.

 

Have any questions? Contact us at info@ccat.us.

Learning Labs: Employee Engagement Survey

Learning Labs: Employee Engagement Survey

Please join us online Wednesday, September 27 for Employee Engagement Surveys, the third webinar of our Job Quality Learning Labs series for manufacturers. In this session we’ll talk about how using the workers’ voice can drive employee satisfaction which leads to better business outcomes.

Sponsored by Workforce Solutions Collaborative of Metro Hartford, Job Quality Learning Labs are free online workshops designed to explore new ways for manufacturers to develop a transformative culture.  

Register for September 27 Webinar

Session 1, June 29
Job Quality: What’s the Hype? 
We’ll define, discuss and help you to understand what this means for your company.

Session 2, August 2 (This session was cancelled)
Supporting the Employee Life Cycle
Come talk best practices that support your employees from recruitment all the way to retirement.

Session 3, Sept. 27
Employee Engagment Surveys
Learn how using the workers’ voice can drive employee satisfaction which leads to better business outcomes.

Session 4, Nov. 9
Importance of Performance Feedback
Let’s discuss performance management and how your team can build an empowered workforce.

 

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Instructor: Monica Perez, People & Culture Manager, CCAT 

Monica Perez is the People and Culture Manager for the Connecticut Center for Advanced Technology.  In this role she works directly with the president and chief executive officer to establish and maintain a positive work environment that aligns with CCAT’s vision, mission, and core values. Her goal is to create an inclusive culture where all employees at all levels have a sense of belonging, feel valued, respected, heard, and supported. She also has over 10 years of experience working for non-profit organizations ranging from program management, overseeing employer and community-based partnerships and coaching others in job quality initiatives. As a leader in workforce development, Monica supports innovative business strategies that yield positive, tangible outcomes for both the employer and their teams. Bringing together her education and military experience, she’s able to use a unique lens to visualize opportunities. Monica is currently a technical sergeant in the Connecticut Air National Guard; she enlisted as a Security Forces member in June of 2008, was a combat arms instructor since 2013, and recently has been selected to become a first sergeant for the Connecticut Air National Guard and is beginning that journey alongside her work at CCAT.

 

Have any questions? Contact us at info@ccat.us.

Connecticut Center for Advanced Technology announces appointment of Dr. Amy Thompson as Chief Training Officer

The Connecticut Center for Advanced Technology (CCAT) announces the appointment of Dr. Amy Thompson as its new Chief Training Officer (CTRO), effective September 1. Thompson will lead CCAT’s workforce, training, development and certification programs. Thompson, who is widely respected in industry and academia, joins the organization after directing Systems Engineering education programs at higher education institutions for more than a decade, the most recent at UConn. She has received funding previously for her work from the U.S. Department of Energy, AFRL, NIUVT, Pratt & Whitney, Eversource, and United Illuminating. She most recently, in 2023, led the effort at UConn to win the DoE Renew America’s Schools grant for Connecticut, working with Bridgeport Public Schools, bringing over $4M in federal resources to improve energy efficiency at some of their schools, only one of 26 awards made nationally. Thompson also contributed to the development of the new U.S. Department of Energy Industrial Assessment Center (IAC) at UConn, serving as an Assistant Director.

Connecticut Center for Advanced Technology is Named a Stanley Black & Decker Makers Grant Recipient

Connecticut Center for Advanced Technology is Named a Stanley Black & Decker Makers Grant Recipient

The Connecticut Center for Advanced Technology (CCAT) announced the official launch of its Manufacturing Innovation Fund Engineering Internship Program. CCAT is partnering with the Department of Economic and Community Development (DECD), and innovative companies across the State, to create a vibrant student-employer community that fosters professional and personal development and exposure to rewarding careers in manufacturing.

Connecticut Launches Internship Program for Manufacturing

Connecticut Launches Internship Program for Manufacturing

The Connecticut Center for Advanced Technology (CCAT) announced the official launch of its Manufacturing Innovation Fund Engineering Internship Program. CCAT is partnering with the Department of Economic and Community Development (DECD), and innovative companies across the State, to create a vibrant student-employer community that fosters professional and personal development and exposure to rewarding careers in manufacturing.

CCAT Awarded 2022 Connecticut Medal of Technology

CCAT Awarded 2022 Connecticut Medal of Technology

CCAT is honored for its contributions in applied technologies and workforce initiatives that strengthen the global competitiveness of the manufacturing ecosystem. (May 16, 2022) East Hartford, CT – Connecticut Center for Advanced Technology (CCAT) has been selected, along with Dr. Craig Crews at Yale University, as a 2022 recipient of the…

Smaller CT manufacturers launch new product development, employee training centers

Smaller CT manufacturers launch new product development, employee training centers

Hartford Business Journal, April 25, 2022By Skyler Frazer Connecticut’s largest manufacturers, including Stanley Black & Decker and Pratt & Whitney, in recent years have opened multimillion-dollar training and product development centers that aim to recruit and/or upskill workers and help create a new line of advanced technology products that can…

Connecticut Center for Advanced Technology Named an Inaugural Stanley Black & Decker Makers Grant Recipient

Connecticut Center for Advanced Technology Named an Inaugural Stanley Black & Decker Makers Grant Recipient

CCAT to assemble a group of influencers to inspire the future workforce and increase the manufacturing talent pipeline March 30, 2022 (East Hartford, CT) – Stanley Black and Decker (NYSE: SWK) announced on March 28 the recipients of its first “Empower Makers” Global Impact Challenge. The Connecticut Center for Advanced…

News8: Conn. Manufacturing Companies Look to Hire, Educate Students

News8: Conn. Manufacturing Companies Look to Hire, Educate Students

https://www.wtnh.com/news/connecticut/hartford/conn-manufacturing-companies-look-to-hire-educate-students/ EAST HARTFORD, Conn. (WTNH) — From aerospace to outer space, Connecticut is booming with technology, and now companies are looking to hire and educate students. There are more than 4,000 medium to small manufacturing companies in the state. They aim to hire students in college and high school. “There…

Connecticut Center for Advanced Technology Secures $900,000 for Community Funding Project in Connecticut’s First District

Connecticut Center for Advanced Technology Secures $900,000 for Community Funding Project in Connecticut’s First District

CCAT to reinvest funding into manufacturing and technology workforce and small business development EAST HARTFORD, March 14, 2022   On March 10, Rep. John B. Larson (CT-01) voted to fund $6.38 million in Community Project Funding that he previously secured for the First District. This funding, included in the appropriations government…