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L-R: Jackie Rohosky, Assistant Commissioner of Economic Development Programs, Quickstart
Todd Murphy, General Manager, HON
Pete McDonald, Vice President of Economic Development, Coosa Valley Technical College |
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CVTC News Release
March 22, 2005
For Immediate Release
Contact: Amber Jordan
Assistant Director, Marketing & Public Relations
706-295-6768 Direct
HON Announces Quick Start Training Initiative
Few Georgia companies are as dedicated to training as The HON Company. HON employs over 700 at their facility in Cedartown and produces both metal and wood office furniture. Just a few years ago, the company dedicated themselves to improving their workforce through training. As part of that effort, they partnered with Georgia Quick Start and Coosa Valley Technical College. HON is now recognized as one of the best of the best manufacturing companies in the United States, winning the prestigious Oglethorpe Award last year and the Shingo Award for Excellence in Manufacturing the year before.
In a ceremony on March 23, HON partnered with Georgia Quick Start and Coosa Valley Technical College to continue to improve workforce training. This training will focus heavily on computer skills, communication and customer service classes. The classes will focus on their newly expanded distribution center.
Quick Start is Georgia’s premiere economic development program, administered through the Department of Technical and Adult Education. The Quick Start program is an economic incentive program that provides employee training, at no cost, for qualified companies moving into the state and qualified existing companies that are expanding their work force. The Quick Start program has been in existence since 1967. During this time period, they have trained more than 515,000 employees for more than 4,600 different companies.
The Quick Start training agreement was developed based on a Project Study that was conducted at the HON facility in Cedartown, GA. “Our members are the reason for our success and are at the center of everything we do. Georgia Quick Start and Coosa Valley Technical College have been an integral part of our improvement efforts,” said HON Vice President and General Manager Todd Murphy. The training agreement is based on HON’s commitment to provide approximately 30 new jobs for Georgians in the Polk County area. Quick Start will be designing and developing training material, as well as providing instructors, for the classes.
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