The Workforce Development and Corporate Services of Sinclair Community College is hosting a series of six professional breakfast seminars between May 20 and June 5.
Mike Donovan, a Workforce Development Consultant, hopes that the 90-minute seminars will help create conversations and spark innovation among workers in the manufacturing industry.
“We’re looking for bicycle makers that are dreaming of airplanes,” Donovan said.
Workforce Development created the series in response to a need some clients expressed, according to Donovan. The seminars will focus on how to use downtime effectively. Donovan, who worked in manufacturing for 20 years before spending the last six years at Sinclair, will be teaching most of the seminars.
“(We’re) trying to serve the needs that exist right now,” he said.
The breakfast seminars are just one series in an overall program of professional development services according to Hope Arthur, a director in Workforce Development. Arthur said the approach to use seminars to spark innovation is new, but she believes the new focus is necessary to the industry.
“Dayton’s grounded and founded on innovation,” Arthur said.
Donovan hopes that the seminar series format will be ongoing. Present and future workshops are designed to appeal to professionals in Organizational Development, Information Technology, organizational assessments and more. A job readiness series is currently in development.
“We want to serve the community,” Arthur said.
Tickets for the breakfast seminars are $49 per session or $199 for all six seminars. Seating is limited to 20 people per session. To learn more about Workforce Development or for full listing of programs, visit their Web site at http://www.sinclair.edu/facilities/wfd.