Workforce Boards
Workforce Investment Boards: Roles, Responsibilities, and System Leadership
Creating effective Workforce Investment Boards requires strong business participation, involvement by each of the One-Stop Partners, and a big picture focus - not just more administrivia. This session helps your WIB: (1) meet its four major responsibilities (linking economic development with workforce development; building a true One-Stop System; developing business services; and fulfilling WIA Title I requirements); (2) increase the quality of business involvement on your board; (3) ensure a true system-wide focus; (4) identify key policy decisions for system leadership; and (5) benchmark its efforts against other WIBs across the country.
An Eye on Trends: Creating and Implementing a New Workforce System Vision
The Workforce System is changing (regardless of legislative change) and now is the time to re-envision, re-engineer, and re-design to move beyond federally mandated requirements to true workforce solutions. Across the country, state and local workforce boards and systems are using targeted industry clusters and major workforce challenges as the drivers for becoming even more demand-driven and to audit their operations to ensure responsiveness. This workshop discusses a new vision for your consideration: (1) how the operational environment is changing and the ten national trends that are changing the business model of the workforce system; (2) why there is a shift to a comprehensive workforce system (of which One-Stop Centers are just one, not the only, part); (3) who the new critical system partners are and the roles they play; and, 4) how to become a comprehensive skill-development system (not just a job-getting system) that helps businesses, workers, and local economies.
Workforce Development Leadership: Aligning for Action and Achievement!
While some Boards have issued "State of the Workforce Reports," conducted skills gap analysis, and identified targeted industries, some have not yet translated these findings into concerted action. To have a meaningful impact, all resources you directly control must be aligned to meet identified needs, partner programs must be influenced to common purpose, and the entire community must be mobilized to attack your community's workforce problems. This workshop will help your Board initiate your strategic planning for the workforce or, if you have a plan, to translate your plan into concrete action steps to achieve your workforce improvement goals.
Building a Strong and Effective Youth Council
o have an effective system of youth services throughout your community, you must define and understand what a "system" means. This session will provide practical tips and how to's that are used to strengthen partnerships, communication, and working relationships with other community partners to ensure the success of your youth customers.
Understanding the Significant Opportunities (not just the "required role") for Your Workforce Board -- Presented in Business Terms
Designed with business members in mind, this session outlines the significant possibilities for the mission of your local workforce board -- while also ensuring that you understand and meet the minimum Board obligations and requirements described in the law. You can move your Board beyond focus on administration of the "one-stop" system and programs -- to a strategic focus on development of a workforce system. The discussion-oriented topics include methods and tools for workforce development: (1) business participation and leadership; (2) community partnering and alignment; (3) resource development and deployment, and (4) successful, dynamic Board operations. If you are new to a Board or looking for ways to advance the role of your Board, this session is for you.
Your Board is Thinking About How to Serve Local Businesses But Is Not Sure How to Go About It...
The publicly-funded workforce development system -- resources, performance incentives, programs, and staff -- is predominantly aligned to serve jobseekers and individuals who need skill upgrading. However, without business services and staff, and program resources aligned to serve businesses, your system cannot succeed. In this session, you review the four fundamental areas that must be addressed to answer the question: (1) business service goals (what do businesses really want and what are we trying to achieve?); (2) products and services (what do we need/want to offer?); (3) organizational structure and processes (how will these services be delivered?); and, (4) partnerships (who are the critical stakeholders to align with?) For each of these areas, dynamic discussions identify the issues, organize the options, review best practices in use around the country, and set a course for action. The goal is to determine how best - for your local community - to invest the public funds to help address businesses' human resource challenges.
"Demystifying" the Workforce Investment Act -- and Understanding the Critical Role of a Local Workforce Investment Board
From a brief "strategic" overview of the legislation to a walk-through of the Board's role - the topics are presented in simple English, draw on easy-to-understand analogies, and present best practices on a number of issues from around the country. The discussion covers ways to ensure relevancy of the local boards, strategic planning, dynamic membership and other areas of interest that help you ensure your local board is maximizing its critical role. In addition, the latest national trends in workforce development will be presented, including an overview of proposed legislative changes and a current update on the process of "re-authorizing" the law.