Join Miller Industries Frontline Leadership Academy. A New Year, a New Leader.
Want to Lead? Join Frontline Leadership Academy!
We are currently selecting for the Miller Industries Frontline Leadership Academy Cohort 6, running from Jan - June 2025. Any employee or current employee in any department is eligible to apply.
For more details see this page
Ooltewah: If you are interested in applying or have an employee who reports that you would like to enroll, please fill out this request form by 5pm Friday Jan 3rd.
Ooltewah course starts Jan 22nd (white shift) & 23rd (blue shift)
150+ Leaders have now Graduated from Cohorts 1-5 of Miller Industries Frontline Leadership Academy (FLA) many receiving promotions after enrolling in the course. FLA is an in-person hands-on course delivered by the world-class training team at Catalyst North Training. The Course meets for eight hours one time a month for six months and teaches participants skills that are essential for being an effective leader. An individual cohort of participants meets at each of the Miller Industries Campuses: Greeneville, Hermitage, and Ooltewah on each shift.
Topics covered include: Emotional Intelligence, the Power of Habit, Systems Thinking, Communication, how to have Crucial Conversations, Coaching Employees, Resolving Conflict, Employee Engagement, and Change Management.
Participants also have the opportunity to create a project proposal, called a Capstone Project, and pitch their proposal to upper-level management. If their project is approved, they have the opportunity to implement the project themselves, giving them real world practical experience.
Important Course Details:
- The Frontline Leadership Academy course is designed to help new, and potential leaders transition into leadership positions and increase their leadership skills.
- Capstone Project: You’ll have the opportunity to pitch a project idea of something that will improve the company in some way to upper-level management and you’ll drive implementation of the project if it is approved. This requires some work outside of class, between sessions.
- This is a great way to display your problem solving and business acumen abilities, both key elements of an effective leader.
- We’ll teach you how to use Power Point Presentations and effectively present.
- You’ll have support from your trainer to help you develop and tweak your project proposal throughout the course.
- This course in interactive and hands-on. You will be expected to come to each class session on time, alert, engaged, ready to interact, practice, and participate in group discussion.
- Although the course will at times cause you to reflect on what can be done better in the company, you are expected to remain professional and provide thoughtful solutions and helpful discussions.
- Training is conducted on scheduled days off for the shift. With one training group for each Blue/White production shift. All course sessions are 8 hours long from 8am-5pm, with an hour lunch, unless otherwise specified.
- Blue/White schedule employees, this means coming in on an off day 1x per month.
- M-F schedule employees will be assigned to one shift group, but classes will always be scheduled on a weekday. You will be expected to stay caught up on the work you miss while you are in class 1x per month.
- Meets in a training room on site at each location: Greeneville, Hermitage, & Ooltewah.
- Sets you above the rest, when applying for promotional opportunities.
For more information see this document.
Questions? Email or call James Fulks: jfulks@millerind.com; 423-910-9223
White Shift group
Session 1: Jan 22nd
Session 2: Feb 20th
Session 3: March 19th
Session 4: April 17th
Session 5: May 14th
Session 6: June 12th
Blue Shift group
Session 1: Jan 23rd
Session 2: Feb 19th
Session 3: March 20th
Session 4: April 16th
Session 5: May 15th
Session 6: June 11th