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 shows WIBs how to increase the quality of business involvement, ensure a system-wide focus, identify key policy decisions and roles, negotiate performance standards and memoranda of understanding, and develop a meaningful local vision. Is your WIB ready to lead?

Staffing the WIB:
Supporting the Board and Serving the System
The required "firewalls" have been created, and the board is now not operating programs. What are the new roles and responsibilities of those who staff the WIB? This seminar will help you think through the ten major (and unique) functions of the WIB staff and plan your contributions to the system, its partners, and its programs. Learn why business services are a key WIB staff function; how to ensure quality and continuous improvement in system performance; what you must do to strengthen the One-Stop partnership and Centers; and how to develop an effective (and influential) Board with strong (and active) Committees.

Creating, Organizing, and Marketing
WIB-Led One-Stop System Business Services
Businesses are vital customers of the local One-Stop Delivery System. The Workforce Investment Board's role includes involving business, assisting in developing local employment statistics, and connecting to economic development. This session will discuss these roles and how to effectively fulfill them at the system and labor market area levels. You will learn: how WIBs across the country are developing and offering business services and how delivery responsibilities are distributed among the WIB, the One-Stop Centers, and Programs; the importance of identifying a specific business services list which segments the market into those services offered to all businesses and those which are targeted and proactively marketed to businesses and industry clusters which are key to local economic development; why incumbent and employed worker training is on the rise and what should be included in your portfolio; and other innovative ideas to reach, serve, and satisfy your business customers. Leave with ideas for developing a local plan to effectively create, organize, and market business services in your community.