Developing Future Leaders in the Food Processing Industry: Options and Opportunities Statewide Washington Food Processors Workforce Skill Panel

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Developing Future Leaders in the Food
Processing Industry Options and
OpportunitiesStatewide Washington Food
ProcessorsWorkforce Skill Panel

• Workforce Skill Panel Meeting
• Seattle, Washington May 4, 2006

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Purpose

• Report on research conducted to identify
  effective strategies and/or program models for
  developing future leaders within the food
  processing industry.
• Over 100 internet sites explored as part of a
  50-hour engagement over a one-month period.

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Charge

• A clarion call has been sounded by retiring
  food industry executives. Strategies are
  urgently needed to pass the torch. Missing is a
  career pathway to identify and train supervisors
  and managers (especially women, Hispanics and
  other minorities) to become high-skill, high-wage
  food processing leaders of the future.
• Skill Panel Proposal

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Target Groups

• Skill Panel members identified four target
  groups
• Talented youth to create a future talent pool
• Promising supervisors/managers to groom for
  future leadership opportunities
• Current shining star executive to sharpen 21st
  century leadership skills
• Women, Hispanics and other minorities with great
  leadership potential

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Key Findings

• Program models and best practice examples
  identified for each of the four target groups.
• Examples identified from food processing programs
  in U.S. and other countries, different segments
  of manufacturing, and other industry sectors.
• All models able to be customized to needs of food
  processing industry.

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What are Future Leaders?

• John Kotter
• Management coping with complexity
• Empowering people
• Getting results
• Leadership coping with change
• Setting and maintaining momentum toward a vision
• Thinking and acting critically and strategically
• Both are critical to success in the 21st century
  global economy.

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Challenge to Future Leaders

• Ability to manage an environment of extreme
  cognitive complexity in many industries,
  requiring extraordinary thinking skills and the
  ability to make high-quality decisions quickly in
  the face of competitive pressures and
  uncertainty.
• Conference Board Study
• Developing Business Leaders for 2010

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Models to Recruit Talented Youth

• Career Fair
• Manufacture Your Future Career Expo
• Manufacturing Career Awareness Campaign
• NAM Dream It. Do It. Campaign
• Manufacturing Pathways Initiative
• Molding Minds in Manufacturing
• Manufacturing Career Development
• Food Processing and Supply Career Ladder

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Models for Promising Supervisors/Managers

• Leadership Workshop
• Leadership in Construction
• Short-Term Leadership Training Programs
• PSU Todays Managers Tomorrows Leaders
• Project Leadership Training Program
• Leadership Certification
• Manufacturing Leadership Certification Program
• One-Year Leadership Program
• BMA Future Leaders
• Two-Year Leadership Program
• Health Care Leadership Program
• Long-Term, Open-Ended Model
• Future Leaders Forum

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Models for Current Executives

• Four Day Weekend Model
• Leadership Transformation Program Designed for
  Manufacturing Executives

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Models Targeting Women, Hispanics and Other
Minorities

• Short-Term Forum
• PSU Womens Leadership Forum
• Three-Day Workshop
• Center for Creative Leadership
• Five-Day Institute
• UCLA School of Management Leadership Suite
• Trade Association Program
• Women in the Metal Industries
• Physical Center
• Instituto del Progresso Latino

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Next Steps

• Validate target groups
• Prioritize target groups
• Set level of intensity for involvement
• Catalogue existing efforts on which to build
• Identify linkages with other system change
• Leverage partnerships and resources
• Develop recommendations for future action