Spreading Safety: Engaging Warehouse Employees & Leaders | Midwest WERCouncil

Spreading Safety: Engaging Warehouse Employees & Leaders | Midwest WERCouncil

Do you have questions about keeping your employees safe and your warehouse productive in this uncertain time? Join Alpine’s Brenda Stoltz, an expert in strategic leadership, operations management and HR programs, for a session titled: Grow Your Safety Culture: How to Engage Warehouse Employees & Leaders.

When it comes to safety in the warehouse, compliance is simply not enough. Rather, employees — and leadership — must be committed to not only keeping themselves safe, but also to ensuring the safety of those around them. Topics include best practices in structuring a team and techniques to gain support for, and increase interest in, safety.

Webinar participants will also discover:

  • The benefits (both expected and unexpected) of a team dedicated to safety
  • Techniques to get hourly employees to buy-in
  • How to instill recommended routines that keep everyone informed and invested
  • Ways to establish peer-to-peer accountability — the single-most effective way to generate a safety-conscious culture
  • Best practices and methods for facilities management, cleaning procedures, crisis planning and employee and customer communications
Gaining Efficiencies and Alignment with Effective Operational Controls | Midwest WERCouncil

Gaining Efficiencies and Alignment with Effective Operational Controls | Midwest WERCouncil

Join WERC and Alpine Solutions’ Brenda Stoltz and David Fredericks, experts in operations management, to learn more about establishing and sustaining SOPs in your distribution center (DC). You’ll learn:

  • Why standardization and consistent execution of procedures are important
  • How to assess and document your current state
  • Best practices to identify and validate improvements
  • How to implement new standards
  • Tips for managing ongoing oversight, compliance and continuous improvement
Engraining the Continuous Improvement Cycle into your Daily Routine | Midwest WERCouncil

Engraining the Continuous Improvement Cycle into your Daily Routine | Midwest WERCouncil

Once you’ve completed the hard work of developing standardized procedures, creating Best Business Practices and developing the methodologies to sustain the change, it’s time to begin implementing a continuous improvement cycle. Join WERC and Alpine Solutions’ Brenda Stoltz and David Fredericks, experts in operations management to see how it’s done.

In this session, we dive into how to:

  • Identify projects with best-in-class savings potential
  • Choose the right projects to achieve your goals
  • Build the right team & keep it motivated
  • Manage & fine tune your projects
  • Sustain & improve on your results with a Continuous Improvement Culture
War and a Piece of the Pie for All: HR Insights for Preparing Your Warehouse Staff for the Holidays | Midwest WERCouncil

War and a Piece of the Pie for All: HR Insights for Preparing Your Warehouse Staff for the Holidays | Midwest WERCouncil

War and a Piece of the Pie for All: HR Insights for Preparing Your Warehouse Staff for the Holidays

As we approach the holidays, most supply chain companies are preparing for their busiest time of the year. They are focused on ensuring they can meet their planned demand, even though that demand is often 2, 3, and sometimes 10 times the typical demand they face on a normal day! During this webinar, we discuss the best way to ensure your workforce is ready for the shift, excited to contribute to a successful peak season, and still engaged post peak. We cover how to: -Ensure you are staffed to meet forecasted volumes -Make employees feel valued and a part of the plan -Establish routines that keep everyone informed and engaged Who should view: -HR/staffing -Warehouse operation leaders -HR business partners that support warehouse teams Speaker: Brenda Stoltz, Managing Director, Alpine Solutions Brenda Stoltz is a Human Resources Leader and an experienced Operations Manager instilled with the practical knowledge of strategic leadership and management. She’s a pro at understanding business objectives and developing a positive culture that promotes constructive growth. As a dynamic leader with robust interpersonal skills, Brenda has developed and led many highly proficient teams. Her supply chain experience comes from spending 8 years as a Senior Leader within a distribution center for Target in a number of different Operational and HR roles.