SLTech Careers That Work

  Megan Ware is no stranger to Salt Lake Community College (SLCC). She first partnered with SLCC’s Workforce & Economic Development in her prior role at Stadler Rail to create the first of its’ kind Talent Ready Apprenticeship Connection (TRAC) apprenticeship. Ware was impressed with SLCC’s commitment and responsiveness. When she started her new journey as the Workforce Development Director at the Utah Manufacturing Association (UMA) she heard there was an opportunity to partner with SLCC again and jumped right in to make it happen.  “When I first started at UMA I sent out a workforce survey to all of our member companies. The response was overwhelming: we need workforce, help with leadership, help with culture, help with all the things.”  Not unique to the manufacturing industry recent workforce shortages have companies looking internally to promote into leadership positions and quickly. Oftentimes, strong workers technical line find themselves in positions of leader...

It all started in a little café off 7200 south. Our Director of Corporate Training Diana Guetschow met with Nicole Goeckeritz, VP of training at Cyprus Credit Union (CCU), to discuss how Salt Lake Community College could meet one of CCU’s pressing needs through its Frontline Leader Workshop program. This was the first step in the creation of the Cyprus Climbers. Dave Sant, Becky Hendrick, Buddy Bennet, Karen Dell, and Karen Seo displaying the Corporate Partnership award. After several meetings of refining and fine-tuning, the Frontline Leader Workshop series was ready to welcome its first cohort of climbers. In addition to attending 11 monthly workshops, the Cyprus Climbers read books related to training topics and wrote summary reports, introspective responses and action plans addressing how they will use the new knowledge.  “The greatest aspect and most humbling part of being a trainer is that I’ve seen the climbers of the Frontline Leader Workshops gain a solid grounding prepari...