Free Education for All AICC Members

Well-trained employees positively impact a company’s bottom line, and employees who are given professional development opportunities are more likely to stay at the company that supported them. Earn the gratitude of your employees and reap the benefits of their expanded knowledge as part of your AICC membership.

In 2013, AICC launched its online learning initiative. The goal was to build an unrivaled professional education program that assists independents in hiring, training, and cross-training employees in all departments for corrugated and paperboard packaging. AICC has been building its online learning library ever since.

AICC began a partnership with the Packaging School in November to expand the quality and quantity of online learning opportunities.

Now, AICC is taking its dedication to your growth and professional development one step further. All AICC e-learning courses are available to members for free. More than 20 courses and webinar recordings, a value of more than $4,600 per employee, are now available to every employee at every location of AICC general and associate member companies.

“We have found continuing education to be vital in retaining our employees. Employees want to know that you are investing in them and their future with the company,” says Al Hoodwin of Michigan City Paper Box Company. “Our millennial generation employees are especially attracted to educational opportunities and will truly appreciate the variety of more than 20 online courses that are now available to all AICC members at no cost.

“We will plan on making the Safety Basics course a requirement for all current and new employees, since it will create a safer workplace and potentially help our workers’ compensation cost,” says Hoodwin. “It is something, as a company, we wanted to do when AICC first introduced the program, but the cost of 76 employees at $250 each was a bit daunting. Now that this $19,000 value of courses is available for free to all members, there is no reason for us not to make the time for the employees to take the course. The best part of online education is that it is available 24/7, so it will be very flexible to implement in

our environment.”

Additionally, these free online courses will allow your team to earn 14 of the required 36 credits to earn an AICC Production Mastery Certificate and 10 of the 36 credits to earn an AICC Sales Mastery Certificate. Learn more at www.aiccbox.org/mastery.

Courses include:

• Achieving Higher Levels of Productivity in Corrugated
• An Understanding of Accounting and Financial Statements
• Communication for Coaches
• Corrugated Basics Three-Part Course Package
• Corrugated Containers
• Faster, Better, Smarter With
• Value Stream Maps
• Fingerprinting the Flexographic Press
• Flexographic Ink Management
• Flexographic Print Basics
• Glass Packaging
• Go Team: Make Your Team More Productive
• Keeping Score: How to Read Financial Statements
• Navigating Time: Job Shop Time Management
• Overall Equipment Effectiveness for the Packaging Industry
• Packaging Foundations
• Paperboard Cartons
• Project Planning: MAPP the Project for SUCCESS
• Safety Basics (English and Spanish)
• Understanding Board Combinations

Several recent webinar recordings are also now available for free to all members:

• 18 Ways to Sell on Value Instead of Price
• Convergent Selling
• Three Pillars of Maintenance
• Warp Fundamentals

AICC, with the Packaging School, will continue to add new courses every month. The pipeline for new courses over the next 12 months includes:

• Internal Staff Development Guide for Onboarding
• Setup Reduction
• How to Spec a Box
• Cutting Dies
• Basic Math for Production
• Anilox Rolls
• Color Theory
• Metal Packaging
• Polymers in Packaging
• Package Printing
• Packaging Machinery
• March 2018 – Regulations
• Distribution
• Sustainable Packaging
• Design Workflow

“Providing training, education, and talent development for our members has long been a core mission successfully delivered by AICC,” says Mike D’Angelo, AICC vice president. “By now, including the full slate of e-learning courses with membership, AICC is clearly stating to members that we stand with you in partnership in building and growing your people, and therefore growing your business. There is no barrier, no cost to the member, and no cap on the number of courses that may be taken or on the number of people who participate. AICC can become your training department. Your investment in AICC membership is an investment in building the experience and competency of your team. Courses range across multiple disciplines, from the plant floor to the front office, and touch all aspects of the packaging markets. As is the custom at AICC, content is prepared by subject-matter experts and organized and presented by education professionals. AICC will, with its partner the Packaging School, continue to develop and strengthen course content to remain ahead of what we expect will be significant engagement from our folding carton, corrugated, rigid box, and Associate members. If you are an AICC member, we urge you to take advantage of this new opportunity.”

Register for the online courses at www.aiccbox.org/packagingschool, and start expanding your skills, free.

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