They've written service manuals for Volkswagon, trained hundreds of displaced workers throughout the Great Lakes Bay Region, set up training sessions for Dow in Shanghai, provided on-site leadership training for companies throughout Michigan, and have won the praises of U.S. Vice President Joe Biden.
The 100 employees who work for
Delta College Corporate Services also just received national recognition from
TrainingIndustry.com as one of the top 20 outsourcing companies in the United States -- along with industry giants like IBM, Accenture, and Raytheon Professional Services. The training and outsourcing website, which serves the training industry, selected Delta College Corporate Services as one of the nation's top 20 out of 300 companies based on results from a national survey.
"If you take a look at the other companies, they are big outfits, not a community college," says Jon Walker, director of business development for Delta College Corporate Services. "We're competing against the Accentures and the Raytheons of the world."
Delta College Corporate Services develops and delivers performance and productivity training solutions to local and regional companies, as well as to organizations throughout Michigan and beyond. The not-for-profit business unit, headquartered at Delta College, works with companies to provide training that is tailored to the needs of each client. In additional to leadership and organizational training, Delta College Corporate Services also provides training in skills like welding and machining.
"We're big enough that we can compete," Walker says, "but we're small enough that we know our clients and our business partners very well."
The organization also works closely with Michigan Works! to provide training to displaced workers through its Fast Start program.
So far, Walker says, the 16-week program has had a 90 percent placement rate, and has impacted about 150 families in the region. In March, Vice President Joe Biden pointed to the Delta College Corporate Services jobs retraining program as a model for how No Worker Left Behind and American Revitalization and Recovery Act dollars should be used nationwide.
Writer: Jenny Cromie
Source: Delta College Corporate Services, Jon Walker
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