Internship Report: Officemax

The organization which I am doing my internship project is Office Depot OfficeMax. OfficeMax was an American office supplies retailer founded in 1988. Core values of OfficeMax is integrity & accountability, think company & customer first, teamwork & trust, focus and discipline, and sense of urgency. It is now a subsidiary of Office Depot. My clients for this project are employees working at OfficeMax in Skokie, IL. There are seven OfficeMax’s in Illinois. For this project I would only be assisting one store. There are twenty-two employees working at this location.
The Need
Current situation is many employees and customers have been injured. There is a lack of knowledge and confidence level on employees at OfficeMax. At least 10 out of the 22 employees have been
The Plan
OfficeMax needs to improve proper lifting techniques, equipment operation, customer and employee safety, and first aid kit knowledge. The purpose of this training is to reduce injuries at OfficeMax. I will produce a training manual, which focuses on many activities to keep employees and customers safe from injuries. I am taking this opportunity to educate the employees about safety precautions at the workplace. I will provide training for employees. I will produce and deliver a safety-training manual to my sponsor and to my HRD professor.

Project Breakdown
On Saturday, January 6, I will meet with Joanne (Store Manager) and discuss my plan of this project. I will meet with her from 9:00-9:30 at OfficeMax Skokie, IL. During the next meeting, I will see what the employees already know, their attitude towards the topic, their motivation, resource needed, goals and the steps to accomplishing the goals. After that process, I will give an overview of the training program to employees. I will give a survey to employees to see how much they know about topic that’s being presented. I will have a PowerPoint on the equipment’s we use at OfficeMax and steps to