NCIA ENTERPRISE 2008
NATIONAL TRAINING CONFERENCE & EXPOSITION
March 9-12, 2008
Albuquerque Convention Center
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Track A: Programming Sales - Defining Your Market
The sales and marketing track is designed to take you through the process of product development, pricing, placement, promotion, and the personnel needed to fulfill your requirements.
Workshops:
- A-1: Product Development: What Does the Customer Want?
- A-2: Price: How?
- A-3: Placement: Sales and Distribution
- A-4: Promotion: Pulling customers to You
- A-5: Personnel: Right people in the Right Jobs
Track B - Leadership and Management
The leadership and management track has been designed to provide today's Correctional Industries Manager (CIM) with a look at a host of different methodologies to address today’s challenges
Workshops:
- B-1: Business Lessons from the Tao Te Ching
- B-2: Lean Six Sigma Method for Process Improvement
- B-3: Follow the Leader?
- B-4: Exceeding Expectations: The Fundamentals of Management that Transform Staff Members into Effective and Contributing Supervisors and Managers
- B-5: Building a Hybrid Industry in a Global World
Track C - Private Industry Partnerships
The objectives of these workshops will be to assist the veteran as well as the beginner to realize that by appropriate use of PIE guidelines (and some added strategies), "the sky's the limit,” and exceptional opportunities are within reach.
Workshops:
- C-1: PIE 101 - Learning the Basics
- C-2: Viewing PIE from the Private Sector Partners' Viewpoint
- C-3: Recruiting New Prospects for PIE Programs
- C-4: Sharing Best Practices in PIE
- C-5: Writing Win-Win Partnership Contracts
Track D - Operations and Finance
Correctional professionals will have an avenue to discuss ways to improve our final product and build the “employable inmate.”
Workshops:
- D-1: Utilizing the Long-Term Inmate Worker to Stabilize the Work Force
- D-2: Opportunities for Correctional Industries with New and Existing State Buildings and Grounds
- D-3: The Multi-Generational Workforce Part I: One Work Place - Four Generations
- D-4: The Multi-Generational Workforce, Part II: Generations at Work - The Big Picture
- D-5: Your Final Product - The Inmate Released Into the Community
Track E - Offender Re-entry
This track will offer tools and information that will assist prison industry staff in providing the tools and services for offenders to "reach for opportunities" and provide hope that the cycle of incarceration can be broken.
Workshops:
- E-1: Building Strong Intra-agency Collaboration to Support Reentry Efforts
- E-2: Successful Outcomes of a Best Practice Community Reentry Partnership
- E-3: Developing a Comprehensive Process for Selecting New Vocational Education Programs
- E-4: Successful Integration of Vocational Education and Correctional Industries
- E-5: Industry Accreditation and Internal Certification Programs
Track F - Jail Industries/Work Programs
Come and meet various jails representatives for the opportunity to network, share ideas, learn what others are doing and inquire about what is happening in jail industries nationwide.
Workshops:
- F-1: Putting more Inmates to Work
- F-2: Jails Industries Partnering with State Industries
- F-3: Meet the Jails
- F-4: Typical Jail Industries
- F-5: The Cutting Edge of Jail Reentry
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