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With Pratt U
Our Mission
Pratt U is a resource designed to be enjoyable, exciting and engaging, helping all employees grow and succeed. By providing training for all employees, we support the company's goal of profitable growth and success.
Empowering Career Growth
We strive to create an environment where employees can learn, grow, and thrive. Pratt U offers a variety of continuing education programs designed to enhance both professional and personal development, covering skills like communication, collaboration, and leadership. Many programs are tailored to your role, helping you apply new knowledge directly to your job, while others prepare you for career advancement.
When developing our courses, we aim to:
- Maintain Pratt's culture and core values as we grow
- Build a career path for all employees
- Develop all of our managers into exceptional leaders
- Foster continuous improvement and development for all employees
Live Training
The courses listed are available to current Pratt employees. Information on dates, locations and how to register are included.
Orientation for sales representatives who are new to Pratt. Kick start your sales career by learning about Pratt Industries, our paper and box making process and networking with your peers during this four-day training session.
- Format: In-person
- Who: Sales Representatives
- Dates & Locations:
- Aug. 17-20, 2026 - Atlanta, GA
- Contact: [email protected]
This three-day training course is open to General Managers, Plant Managers and Sales Managers who are new to management or new to Pratt. Attendees will learn about Pratt's company culture and history, the importance of budgets and understanding manufacturing data.
- Format: In-person
- Who: Managers who are new to management or new to Pratt
- Dates & Locations:
- Feb. 18-20, 2026 - Atlanta, GA
- Contact: [email protected]
Effective communication is critical to all high-functioning teams. This one-day, in-person training is designed for you to improve your communication skills. This course empowers all employees to speak a common language and develop critical listening skills.
- Format: In-person
- Who: Any employee seeking to improve communication skills
- Dates & Locations:
- March 18, 2026: Springfield, OH
- Oct. 20-21, 2026: Atlanta, GA
- Contact: [email protected]
Through a combination of virtual and live sessions, the goals of this training are to adopt and become fluent in one common sales language and to equip the Pratt sales team with the tools it needs to develop structured selling plans. This hybrid program consists of a three-day live training followed by two two-hour virtual sessions.
- Format: Virtual + In-person
- Who: Sales teams
- Dates & Locations:
- Part 1: June 9-11, 2026 - Atlanta
- Part 2: June 23-24, 2026 - Virtual
- Contact: [email protected]
This workshop will focus on the intersection of leadership and training, emphasizing how leaders can inspire, empower, and equip their teams for success. Leaders will gain practical skills to lead with confidence.
- Format: In-person
- Who: Managers, supervisors, superintendents and other leaders
- Dates & Locations:
- Jan. 13, 2026 - Cedar Hill, TX
- April 14, 2026 - Conyers, GA
- July 14, 2026 - Lewisburg, OH
- Sept. 15, 2026 - Nashville, TN
- Contact: [email protected]
"Take care of your people and do the right thing." These values are core to maintaining Pratt's culture and a key part of this mandatory training for all employees. The course is also a requirement for SMETA. If you or members of your team have not completed this training, please contact Pratt U using the email address below.
- Format: Virtual (Salaried) + In-person (Hourly)
- Who: All Pratt employees
- Dates: (Virtual)
- Jan. 13 & 15, 2026
- March 17 & 19, 2026
- May 12 & 14, 2026
- Sept. 22 & 24, 2026
- Nov. 10 & 12, 2026
- Contact: [email protected]
Online Learning
Our online learning library provides courses that cover a variety of subjects including safety, leadership, compliance training and more.
Don't know where to start? Scroll through some of our most popular classes below.
How to find Pratt U Online Courses:
- Log on to ADP.
- Click on Pratt U under Helpful Links on the right hand side.
- Use the Catalog or Search bar to find your course.
Hourly employees should complete online courses at work with the approval of your manager.
Online Learning Topics
Available at Pratt U on ADP
- Business Email Etiquette (30 min.)
- Communication Across Cultures (6 min.)
- Communication Essentials: Communicating with Different Audiences (8 min.)
- Communication Skills (15 min.)
- Team Building Exercises - Communication (16 min.)
- Microsoft Teams - Quick Start (34 min.)
- Copilot Essentials in Microsoft Office (49 min.)
- Introduction to Microsoft Copilot for Excel, Word and PowerPoint (35 min.)
- Adapting to Direct & Indirect Feedback Styles (5 min.)
- Bullying & Harassment for Managers and Supervisors (30 min.)
- Rockstar Recruiting - Behavioral Interviewing (36 min.)
- 10 Minute Interviewing Skills (10 min.)
- Behavioral Interviewing (15 min.)
- Interviewing & Hiring Lawfully (30 min.)
- Interviewing Skills for Managers: Conducting an Interview (25 min.)
- Building Accountability: Trust & Performance at Work (7 min.)
- Frontline Leadership - Lead like a Legend (30 min.)
- Leadership & Management Series
- Leadership Styles (15 min.)
- Transition to Leadership (40 min.)
Online Learning Tools for Managers
Did you know that as a manager you can assign online training and view your employees' learning progress in ADP? Use the videos below to learn how to assign training and pull learning reports.
Assign Training in ADP
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Pull Learning Reports in ADP
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Onsite Training
Pratt U is committed to providing valuable hands-on training opportunities to all employees. Our training programs cover a wide range of skills including communication, collaboration, leadership and work/life balance. You will gain real-world experience and apply what you learn directly to your job responsibilities.
Please reach out to your manager to learn more about these opportunities.
Training with Pratt U
ACES
Our Advancing Capabilities Empowering Supervisors (ACES) program is a 12-month course designed for frontline supervisors focusing on leadership dynamics, team management and operational excellence. Engage in hands-on employee development, from fostering diversity to practical on-the-job training, ensuring comprehensive growth and performance optimization. *Participation in this course requires a leadership nomination.
Internship Program
Through our internship program, students gain a glimpse into the packaging industry, enabling them to apply their classroom knowledge to practical situations and build essential professional relationships. Students complete meaningful projects and report on their results at the annual Intern Summit.
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Maintenance Apprentice Program
This program is a collaboration between corrugator plants and local technical schools to provide a combination of classroom and on-the-job training tailored to the participant’s specific role. Each week, participants spend a half day in the classroom followed by working their normal shifts mentored by onsite coaches.
Masters in Business & Leadership Program
This nomination-based program is designed to help participants broaden their understanding of Pratt’s business and expand your cross-functional network. Through in-person workshops, online classes, and team project work, employees will gain the business acumen and leadership skills needed to manage effectively at Pratt.
Maverick Program
Designed for front line leaders, participants undergo a tailored self-assessment, enabling the identification of curated online learning modules. These online modules are geared towards honing crucial skills necessary for front-line leadership within the organization. This is a nomination based course. Reach out to your manager if you're interested.
Pratt Production Leadership
Designed for corrugator superintendents, this twelve month program is focused on Pratt metrics and expectations of Pratt leadership. What do we measure and why? How do these metrics affect overall plant performance? This is a nomination based course. Reach out to your manager if you're interested.
“Pratt U has become an important and integral part of Pratt Industries over the past few years because of the education opportunities it provides our employees across the company. The curriculum has expanded to include an array of learning opportunities for all employees both for their professional and personal development.”
Language Learning Support
Pratt U is committed to supporting our employees by providing the English-Spanish glossary. Please use the link below to access it.
Glossary of Printing and Packaging Terms
Pratt U is committed to supporting employees by offering Rosetta Stone language learning for business purposes, providing immersive lessons that focus on speaking skills, real-time pronunciation feedback, and interactive activities to help build confidence in new language use.
For more information, email [email protected].
“Before I started using the program I had learned enough Spanish to allow me to let my employees know what needed to be done. Now I'm starting to be able to hold conversations with employees about work as well as their home lives. I've only been using it for around three weeks but have already noticed a difference.”
“Learning Spanish through Rosetta Stone has been a real pleasure. I use it almost every day at work, and it’s already making a noticeable difference—like being able to greet my coworkers in Spanish and better understand conversations. The team has been really supportive, and I’m grateful to Pratt and Rosetta Stone for helping me work toward my longtime goal of becoming bilingual.”
“As a non-native speaker, this platform has been very useful. My listening skills and vocabulary have improved a lot. Also, the context used to teach is based in a work environment which is a plus.”
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What Do You Want To Learn?
Is there a topic that you don't see covered? Send us your ideas at [email protected]. We are always adding to our library of classes and value your input.