OUR EXPERTS HELP YOU DELIVER TALENT
We’re not merely training experts. We’re a workforce development organization that helps you build a capable and inspired workforce to get you where you want to go.
FULL-SERVICE CONSULTING TEAM DELIVERS RESULTS
Our experienced team works side by side with your HR and training leaders, management, and front-line team members to build a training strategy that aligns to your business objectives and delivers measurable ROI.
UNCOVER BLIND SPOTS
We help you identify gaps that are preventing you from reaching maximum performance.
GAIN THIRD-PARTY CLARITY
We assess your organization's readiness for building a solid learning culture. From there, we develop a complete training and development strategy tied to your business goals.
LEARN BEST PRACTICES TO BUILD TALENT
Working with half of the Fortune 500® manufacturing companies and nearly a thousand educational institutions across the country, we have curated best practices to help you build a strong manufacturing workforce.
EXPERIENCE FLEXIBLE OPTIONS
While all companies want to unleash productivity, efficiency, and possibility, they approach it differently. Based on your specific needs, we offer strategies from off-the-shelf solutions to tailored and custom programs.
Talent, Training & Retention
SME’s Workforce Readiness & Accelerant Program (WRAP) is an on-site solution that helps employers quickly assess and improve talent practices. By embedding workforce specialists, WRAP identifies gaps in attracting, training, and retaining employees and delivers tailored action plans. The program helps optimize recruiting, accelerate onboarding, enhance training, and reduce attrition through custom strategies.
WRAP benchmarks organizations against best-in-class standards and deploys expert resources to implement solutions. From designing on-the-job training to improving recruiting pipelines, WRAP has achieved measurable results across industries such as aerospace, defense, transportation, and electric vehicle manufacturing. Examples include:
- Reducing turnover and saving $3 million for an aerospace company
- Cutting qualification time from three months to one week for a truck trailer manufacturer
- Improving engineering team competencies by 14 percent for a defense contractor
- Upskilling 1,800 electric vehicle technicians with a 98 percent success rate
Readiness Assessment
The biggest challenge facing U.S. manufacturing today is the skilled workforce shortage which demands immediate and decisive action. Experts say that, if not addressed now, the crisis will dangerously accelerate in the next decade.
To help companies address this issue, SME is offering this free Workforce 2030 Readiness Assessment. By answering a series of questions about your company’s knowledge retention, readiness for future skills requirements, and the status of employee development programs, you will be able to assess your ability to meet the rapidly approaching workforce challenges.
Take the Assessment
BLENDED TRAINING APPROACH
This approach includes strong onboarding, role-based learning, and critical skill development. Then, a structured approach to OJT quickly qualifies employees for assigned job duties. The proper mix of training methodologies will rapidly develop individuals so they can meet the performance expectations of their job.
JOB DEFINITION
Identify the job roles in your organization, understand crossover between roles, and create career pathways.
STANDARDIZED OJT
Transfer organizational knowledge and skills from your most experienced team members and structure on-the-floor learning through a sustainable and measurable program.
ASSESSMENTS
Measure the knowledge and skills of individuals and better understand the capabilities of your workforce.
ANALYSIS & ADVISORY SUPPORT
Design and implement a learning and development program or build upon your existing program.
RETOOL & REFOCUS YOUR TRAINING LEARN HOW WE CAN HELP
Our Learning Services team can design a training program that delivers faster time to performance, improved quality and productivity, and increased employee satisfaction and retention.