Twenty-nine employees from 10 area businesses completed 12 weeks of leadership training in the Dale Carnegie Training program offered by the Magnolia Economic Development Council, Southern Arkansas University, Magnolia, and SAU Tech.
With financial assistance through the MEDC, the Office of Continuing Education at SAU and SAU Tech were able to offer this training to the manufacturing industry in the area at a reduced cost. This enabled the businesses to fill a training class with existing employees and have the class in Magnolia at the Donald W. Reynolds Campus and Community Center located on the University campus.
“This is the very first time that Dale Carnegie has done this leadership training for industry in the Magnolia area,” said Micheal Bashford, director of business and industry training at the SAU Tech Career Service Center. “Both industry and SAU and SAU Tech are quite pleased to have this caliber of training in our area for existing employees to participate in.”
The Dale Carnegie Training program was founded in 1912. It has evolved from one man’s belief in the power of self-improvement to a performance-based training company with offices worldwide. It focuses on giving people in business the opportunity to sharpen their skills and improve their performance in order to build positive, steady, and profitable results.
Headquartered in Hauppauge, N.Y., Dale Carnegie Training is represented in all 50 of the United States and more than 70 countries. More than 2,700 instructors present Dale Carnegie Training programs in more than 25 languages. The program is dedicated to serving the business community worldwide. In fact, approximately seven million people have completed Dale Carnegie Training.
Employees include Jeff Almand, Robert Dodson, Jon David Gee, Robert Hall, Kenny Hicks, and Nita Smith, Alcoa; Shawn Andrews, Danny Casalos, Mike Sayre, Steve Waier, and Joseph Watson, Raytheon; Jeffery Barnard, Eric Burton, Don Cooper, Mike Gass, Harlan Goodwin, and Deborah Owens, Inspec Foams; Dexter Buggs, Southern Aluminum; Shelly Burgess, Unit Structures; Chris Copeland and Corey Johnson, Deltic Timber; Wendy DuPree, Shaw Group; Francis Neldon, Chris Otwell, Van D. Privitt, and James Thompson, CMC Steel Arkansas; Jeremiah Pryor, Amfuel; Kelly Sinor, Partee Flooring; and Joe Sledge, Albemarle.
