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Explore Our Extensive Resources for Cutting-Edge Thought Leadership and Content to Enhance Learning & Development in Food Manufacturing

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Unlock Workforce Potential: Boost Productivity and Improve Retention

In this webinar, Cindie Serrano of Lincoln Premium Poultry and Wendy Bushell of Palermo’s Pizza discussed how targeted learning and development strategies—combined with cultural transformation and technology—can reduce turnover, increase engagement, and drive operational excellence.

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Protecting Your Brand Starts with Safety

As oversight from regulators decreases, the inspections, reminders, and backstops you once counted on aren’t there like they used to be. Listen to safety leaders Erik Kurdelak and Gary Cluck share how to safeguard your brand.

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Hidden Costs of Inconsistent Employee Development

This free report reveals what many food manufacturers have been missing: a clear picture of how unstructured training drains resources across your entire operation—and how structured employee development changes everything.

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Hidden Cost Calculator

We’ve all felt the strain of unplanned downtime, high turnover, and quality issues—but what do those hidden costs actually amount to? This interactive calculator takes you beyond guesswork. Using a typical midsize food manufacturing plant as a benchmark, we’ve built a composite scenario to show how gaps in training impact your bottom line. Now, plug in your own numbers to see how your facility stacks up—and discover the improvements other WorkForge clients have seen after implementing a modern, scalable workforce development solution.

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Lessons from Leaders

Discover how leading companies like Palermo’s Pizza, Wholestone Farms, LifeLine Foods, and PPC Flexible Packaging are overcoming workforce challenges with strategic training solutions. From reducing turnover and enhancing retention to driving productivity gains and fostering a culture of growth, these success stories showcase the power of intentional workforce development. Learn how structured training programs are helping organizations stay competitive, improve safety, and streamline operations.

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How Employee Development Unlocks Peak Performance in Manufacturing

Discover how to transform manufacturing roles into dynamic career paths in this webinar. Learn how training can maximize frontline employee potential, speed up onboarding, and reduce burnout—all while tailoring education to individual needs. Watch to uncover an effective solution beyond recruitment and costly upgrades!

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Labor, Maintenance, and Innovation Solutions in Baking and Snack Manufacturing

Discover how strategic learning and development can help baking and snack producers tackle labor shortages, rising costs, and maintenance challenges.

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Go Beyond Food Safety

How to Build a Skilled Maintenance Workforce to Safeguard Your Manufacturing Operations

This webinar provides actionable insights from our expert panel on how a strong maintenance training program can help you overcome labor shortages, prevent costly equipment failures, and ensure consistent regulatory compliance.

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LifeLine Foods Case Study

How LifeLine Foods transformed onboarding, reduced turnover, and improved production and employee retention with WorkForge's custom training solution.

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WorkForge Safety Guide

A step-by-step guide on creating a safety-first culture for your team, because a safe facility protects your capital investments and fosters a more positive and higher-quality environment for your employees.

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Are you prepared and able to meet the FDA’s food traceability requirements?

Food traceability is one of the hottest topics in food manufacturing and is going to be for the foreseeable future. Erik helps break down what you need in your plan.

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2025 Food Safety & Regulatory Updates Webinar

Listen as Food Safety and Industry expert, Erik Kurdelak, discusses the upcoming regulatory and legal changes that could impact your training, production, supply chains, sanitation, costs, and more in 2025.

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Wholestone Farms Webinar

Listen as Grant Prenzlow, Human Resources Director, shares how Wholestone Farms increased employee performance and retention while lowering the cost of operations with WorkForge.

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AI in Manufacturing

In this webinar, we delve into the transformative impacts of AI in manufacturing and the crucial role of workforce training in this technological evolution. Our panelists, industry experts at the forefront of AI and automation integration in manufacturing, address key questions shaping the future of workforce development.

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Swiss-Tech Case Study

Swiss-Tech needed faster onboarding, consistent training, and a solution that worked across languages. With rising turnover, wasted materials, and delayed productivity, the stakes were high. See how they used WorkForge to cut onboarding time, reduce downtime, and build a more productive, prepared workforce—starting on day one.

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PPC Flex Webinar

Listen as Lisa Miller, an HR Leader with over 20 years of experience, shares how PPC Flex has transformed its L&D practices and revolutionized its HR processes to drive employee performance.

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WorkForge 101 Webinar

Whether you want to enhance your L&D program, optimize employee hiring and retention, or ensure compliance and competency across your workforce, this introductory session is for you.

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PPC Flex Case Study

In pursuit of operational excellence, PPC Flex needed an enterprise-level, holistic, and configurable learning management system (LMS) to help the company reach its highest productivity and profitability levels.

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What's a Career Pathway?

What's a pathway vs. a module vs. a course? And what's included in a career pathway? Watch this short video to understand what goes into this important component of WorkForge's solution.

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Course Catalog

Effective skills development enables your employees to increase their knowledge and improve how they do their jobs. With Career Pathways, you can configure a learning program specific to your unique needs.

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Quarterly Release Webinars

Watch the recordings of our quarterly release webinars to know all of the latest updates to our Pathways and Learning Management System.  

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Q3 2025 Product Release Webinar

Our Q3 Release Webinar covered our new Amonia Safety content, manager dashboard and more!

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Q1 2025 Product Release Webinar

Q1 2025 Product Release Webinar

Watch an exclusive look at WorkForge’s Q1 Product Releases! We kicked off 2025 with exciting updates designed to elevate workforce learning and development.

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Q3 Product Release Webinar

Listen as we discuss our new food Safety Module Blueprints, How to use the new Data Portal, how to Integrate QR Codes to deploy and track training, and hear the results of some recent user surveys.

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Q2 Product Release Webinar

During the Q2 Product Release Webinar, we unveiled the latest updates in our Learning Management System (LMS) and Content Catalog. New Releases include: New Food Safety Micromodules in Spanish and Burmese, new leadership content and in-person training offerings, user notifications and surveys and LMS Administrator Credential Offerings.

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Q1 Product Release Webinar

The Q1 2024 Product Release Webinar covered LMS and content updates including: Skills Matrix and OJT, Updated Health & Safety Content and Micromodules, Advanced PLC Content, New DEI courses, and new Spanish translations.

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WorkForge 101 Webinar

Whether you want to enhance your L&D program, optimize employee hiring and retention, or ensure compliance and competency across your workforce, this introductory session is for you.

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Featured Career Pathway Overviews

Effective skills development enables your employees to increase their knowledge and improve how they do their jobs. With Career Pathways, you can configure a learning program specific to your unique needs.

Food Safety

Our Food Safety pathway is dedicated to compliance and safety, keeping your employees current on changing regulations and prepared for periodic audits.

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Pet Food Safety

Our Pet Food Safety pathway helps employees recognize potential hazards, adhere to safety protocols, and maintain the highest quality in pet food production.

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Food Maintenance Tech

The Food Maintenance Tech Pathway is designed to provide a foundation in key concepts, techniques, and best practices for food manufacturing maintenance.

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Programmable Logic Controllers

The PLC pathway combines intro content that is PLC agnostic and Advanced content specific to manufacturers using Rockwell Automation/Allen Bradley equipment.

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Leadership and Supervisor

The new Leadership pathway includes configurable in-person and digital leadership content that blends digital assessments and modules with instructor-led workshops and coaching.

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