Revolutionary reading success for 40+ years

Workforce Literacy Return on Investment

Read Right Yields a High Return on Your Investment

One company’s experience:

Deknatel manufactures a broad array of medical devices. They initiated a Continuous Improvement Institute (CII) in which employees received 50 hours of training in company products, team problem solving, and quality tools, such as Pareto analysis, brainstorming, fishbone diagrams, etc. After the first of many planned trainings, corporate leaders were disappointed with the results and determined that poor reading skills prevented full participation and effective implementation. Deknatel brought in Read Right to improve employee literacy, and then continued the CII trainings.

Revenue per employee increased from $131,000 to $177,000 in the three years after Read Right and CII were initiated.

Improvements that occur in production, quality, safety, team participation, and communications mean money to the bottom line.

Production

Quality

Safety

Team Participation

Communications

At the time we started the program, I was managing one of the assembly operations. We were in serious trouble on our quality. Now that our employees can read well, they aren’t intimidated from going to the written procedures when they have a question. Read Right had a big play in turning that operation around.

— Robert Pelletier, Vice President for Operations, Deknatel, Falls River, MA —