Choose From These Sample Training Topics
Mixing the Economic Development Cocktail: Combining Resources to Create
Wealth
Learn all the tips, tricks and tonics required to mix, match and maximize economic
development strategies. This spirited presentation should be a beneficial elixir to
anyone interested in creating good paying jobs in their community. Learn how to
shop the available resource shelf and learn rules for what does and doesn’t mix.
Discover special garnishes for underserved and special populations of job
seekers. The essential mixology skills needed for dealing with state, regional
and local economic development groups will be presented. Gain a warm buzz
from discovering that the wide variety of resources can be blended to help recruit
new business and expand existing ones. The session goal is for no one to leave
with his or her glass half full. Warning: traditional concepts may be shaken, not
stirred.
Creating a Local Business Services Team
We've heard it heard it often....businesses want prompt seamless service without
all the red tape. The public sector often struggles with how to truly deliver what the
private sector wants, particularly with the myriad of programs and services that
abound. This session will focus on how to create a local business services team
that is business driven, includes a business outreach process, and offers
enhanced products and services. An effective structural model for a business
services team will be offered as well as suggestions for conducting assets
mapping of a team's products and services, implementing an integrated activities
tracking system, and marketing the team.
The World Changed Between First and Second Semesters
The global competitive playing field is being leveled....the world is being flattened.
Is America prepared? No longer are Timbuktu and Outer Mongolia seen as
worlds away with no influence on the one we Americans live in. This session will
focus on the trends and challenges to preparing the workforce and what
educational systems must do now, 23 years after the warnings of "A Nation at
Risk," to get their students ready for employment opportunities in a every-
changing world market. The relationship between economic development and
workforce development in a global economy will be discussed and its impact on
education examined.
Customized Training for Business & Industry
Participants attending this workshop will learn how to create a business-driven
system, develop a business outreach process, enhance employer services with
the addition of key business services, and use what’s working in other local
areas to build a new business system focused on customized training that
results in quality employees. Emphasis will be placed on providing a seamless
delivery of all training resources available by identifying and supporting
customized training activities. Strategies included establishing a main point of
contact with the employer, eliminating duplication of services, and blending all
federal and state customized training funds to maximize the funding package
available to the employer. A national model will be examined that illustrates how
the combined efforts of all parties result in establishing a single
application/contract/grant process that captures multiple funding sources at both
the state and local levels.
Incumbent Worker Training
As a vital business service, incumbent worker training can assist employers in
remaining competitive by upgrading skills of existing workers. In this workshop a
careful distinction will be made between “employed workers” and “incumbent
workers” for the purpose of effectively and legally utilizing WIA and other sources
of funds. Areas of consideration related to the incumbent worker include training,
layoff aversion activities and the various state and federal funding streams that
apply. Specific criteria used by states for engaging in incumbent worker training
will be examined, including industry-recognized portable credentials, wage
upgrade, job upgrade, creating a backfill position, and/or new technology.
OJT Strategies for Performance and Employer Satisfaction
This hands-on workshop teaches a simple eight-step process that empowers
employee teams to identify tasks that need to be trained and documented, write
step-by-step training modules on those tasks, verify the modules on-site, and
conduct “structured” OJT as opposed to traditional OJT. Participants also learn
how to assess the need for OJT, develop a project plan, a training implementation
plan and maintenance and evaluation plans.
Rapid Response & Layoff Aversion
Participants will explore roles, responsibilities, and a system for delivering Rapid
Response services and Layoff Aversion activities under the Workforce Investment
Act. From initial receipt of notification of downsizing to subsequent employer and
informational meetings and follow-up services, information must be shared and
services delivered via a team approach. Coordination of Rapid Response
services for dislocated workers, including Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA)
impacted workers, will be discussed with regard to federal and state agencies,
local WIBs, unions, and community agencies involved in worker dislocation
issues. Administrative functions such as reporting, WARN Notices, and providing
technical assistance will also be addressed.
Business & Industry Consortia: A Pre-Employment Training Model
In this workshop, participants will walk through the steps for establishing an
industry consortium and a subsequent industry-specific pre-employment training
program that provides a labor pool continuum of work-ready employees validated
by the industry. The model sets forth complete details for development,
implementation and sustainability utilizing public and private sector resources.
Examples and lessons learned provided throughout the workshop will come from
experience implementing the model in the following industries:
hospitality/tourism, aerospace, polymers, wood, and healthcare.
Branding & Marketing Your Workforce Investment System
As local, regional and statewide systems evolve, it is critical that local One Stop
Centers continue to enhance how the local systems are marketed and
merchandized. During this workshop, attendees will be engaged in talking about
marketing as “everything that each employee does” and reviewing how to build
and sustain a positive brand image by updating and enhancing current customer
service practices.
Job Migration and Career Mapping
Every industry at one time or another has experienced the need for quality labor.
Low unemployment rates, entrepreneurial ventures, and an aging work force all
contribute to the need for trained and experienced workers. Natural job movement
also affects the employee base. How companies deal with this natural labor
movement can either make or break their level of production, service or care. How
communities deal with this issue can impact regional economic and work force
development. There are specific steps that can be taken to manage the effects of
natural job movement. The job migration mapping process can help regions to
effectively manage their labor pools.
Aligning Workforce & Economic Development
This first portion of the training will provide the audience with a basic
understanding of workforce development with particular emphasis placed on the
Workforce Investment Act of 1998 as well as other state and federal training
programs often used in economic development efforts. In its simplest terms,
Economic Development is the creation of wealth for all citizens. It’s also a
process by which local and state economies grow in “value” and “quality” as a
result of public and private sector investments in making development resources
more competitive and by strengthening the public policy climate governing
business and economic behavior within a geographic region. This portion of the
training will examine the elements of effective economic development, core
activities, and the use of community resources to serve business needs. This
training will focus on aligning activities and use of resources to advance common
goals. Best practices for collaboration on planning and service delivery will be
shared and opportunities within governance, strategies and tactics will be
explored. Attendees will have an opportunity to use the results from an exercise to
develop next steps and an implementation plan. Tools (worksheets and tasks) to
help them implement what was learned during the training will be provided.
There are tools for one person to use on his or her own and tools to use with a
group in a training or workshop setting which can be helpful in continuing the
partnership development efforts between workforce development and economic
development practitioners.
Developing a Business Solutions Menu of Services
This two-day workshop will outline proven strategies for developing effective
business programs and services. Based on the notion that the relationship
between employment and training programs and the business community works
best when it is viewed and functions as a mutually beneficial partnership, this
workshop will identify four basic areas of consideration: what can employers offer
employment and training programs; what can employment and training programs
offer employers; approaches to developing the business partnership; and
benefits to both parties. Specific areas to be addressed include customized
training, on-the-job training, placement and job development, assessment and
screening, internships for youth, industry clusters and business consortia,
incumbent worker training, pre-employment training, integration and promotion of
state and local resources for business and industry and innovative strategies for
partnering with state economic development training incentives.
Effective Assessment Strategies
This workshop will assist staff to understand and interpret the results of
evaluations and assessments. Staff will go away from the workshop with the
understanding that giving tests is not the same as using them and that it is
important to interpret appropriately for each individual customer's needs.
Emphasis will also be given to areas such as the importance of interpreting
assessments accurately, clearly and simply, avoid intimidating terms (IQ, normal,
weakness, deficit, etc.), not using technical jargon unless absolutely necessary,
and defining confusing terms that must be used. In addition, the workshop will
cover related information such as understanding reliability and validity, repetitious
explanations, relation of data to other sources of information and most
importantly, documentation of reviewing an assessment with a customer.
Job Club Development/Comprehensive Job Search Workshop
This “train-the-trainer” workshop covers and emphasizes preparing and assisting
customers in discovering their tools for true direction in a successful career path
based upon assessment, interests, and demand occupations. It will emphasize
the importance of helping customers discover job search methods that work,
accessing the hidden job market and existing labor market information, learning
to write an effective resume, improving communication skills, building networking
skills, employing specific interview techniques, and making work skills
transferable.
Wealth
Learn all the tips, tricks and tonics required to mix, match and maximize economic
development strategies. This spirited presentation should be a beneficial elixir to
anyone interested in creating good paying jobs in their community. Learn how to
shop the available resource shelf and learn rules for what does and doesn’t mix.
Discover special garnishes for underserved and special populations of job
seekers. The essential mixology skills needed for dealing with state, regional
and local economic development groups will be presented. Gain a warm buzz
from discovering that the wide variety of resources can be blended to help recruit
new business and expand existing ones. The session goal is for no one to leave
with his or her glass half full. Warning: traditional concepts may be shaken, not
stirred.
Creating a Local Business Services Team
We've heard it heard it often....businesses want prompt seamless service without
all the red tape. The public sector often struggles with how to truly deliver what the
private sector wants, particularly with the myriad of programs and services that
abound. This session will focus on how to create a local business services team
that is business driven, includes a business outreach process, and offers
enhanced products and services. An effective structural model for a business
services team will be offered as well as suggestions for conducting assets
mapping of a team's products and services, implementing an integrated activities
tracking system, and marketing the team.
The World Changed Between First and Second Semesters
The global competitive playing field is being leveled....the world is being flattened.
Is America prepared? No longer are Timbuktu and Outer Mongolia seen as
worlds away with no influence on the one we Americans live in. This session will
focus on the trends and challenges to preparing the workforce and what
educational systems must do now, 23 years after the warnings of "A Nation at
Risk," to get their students ready for employment opportunities in a every-
changing world market. The relationship between economic development and
workforce development in a global economy will be discussed and its impact on
education examined.
Customized Training for Business & Industry
Participants attending this workshop will learn how to create a business-driven
system, develop a business outreach process, enhance employer services with
the addition of key business services, and use what’s working in other local
areas to build a new business system focused on customized training that
results in quality employees. Emphasis will be placed on providing a seamless
delivery of all training resources available by identifying and supporting
customized training activities. Strategies included establishing a main point of
contact with the employer, eliminating duplication of services, and blending all
federal and state customized training funds to maximize the funding package
available to the employer. A national model will be examined that illustrates how
the combined efforts of all parties result in establishing a single
application/contract/grant process that captures multiple funding sources at both
the state and local levels.
Incumbent Worker Training
As a vital business service, incumbent worker training can assist employers in
remaining competitive by upgrading skills of existing workers. In this workshop a
careful distinction will be made between “employed workers” and “incumbent
workers” for the purpose of effectively and legally utilizing WIA and other sources
of funds. Areas of consideration related to the incumbent worker include training,
layoff aversion activities and the various state and federal funding streams that
apply. Specific criteria used by states for engaging in incumbent worker training
will be examined, including industry-recognized portable credentials, wage
upgrade, job upgrade, creating a backfill position, and/or new technology.
OJT Strategies for Performance and Employer Satisfaction
This hands-on workshop teaches a simple eight-step process that empowers
employee teams to identify tasks that need to be trained and documented, write
step-by-step training modules on those tasks, verify the modules on-site, and
conduct “structured” OJT as opposed to traditional OJT. Participants also learn
how to assess the need for OJT, develop a project plan, a training implementation
plan and maintenance and evaluation plans.
Rapid Response & Layoff Aversion
Participants will explore roles, responsibilities, and a system for delivering Rapid
Response services and Layoff Aversion activities under the Workforce Investment
Act. From initial receipt of notification of downsizing to subsequent employer and
informational meetings and follow-up services, information must be shared and
services delivered via a team approach. Coordination of Rapid Response
services for dislocated workers, including Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA)
impacted workers, will be discussed with regard to federal and state agencies,
local WIBs, unions, and community agencies involved in worker dislocation
issues. Administrative functions such as reporting, WARN Notices, and providing
technical assistance will also be addressed.
Business & Industry Consortia: A Pre-Employment Training Model
In this workshop, participants will walk through the steps for establishing an
industry consortium and a subsequent industry-specific pre-employment training
program that provides a labor pool continuum of work-ready employees validated
by the industry. The model sets forth complete details for development,
implementation and sustainability utilizing public and private sector resources.
Examples and lessons learned provided throughout the workshop will come from
experience implementing the model in the following industries:
hospitality/tourism, aerospace, polymers, wood, and healthcare.
Branding & Marketing Your Workforce Investment System
As local, regional and statewide systems evolve, it is critical that local One Stop
Centers continue to enhance how the local systems are marketed and
merchandized. During this workshop, attendees will be engaged in talking about
marketing as “everything that each employee does” and reviewing how to build
and sustain a positive brand image by updating and enhancing current customer
service practices.
Job Migration and Career Mapping
Every industry at one time or another has experienced the need for quality labor.
Low unemployment rates, entrepreneurial ventures, and an aging work force all
contribute to the need for trained and experienced workers. Natural job movement
also affects the employee base. How companies deal with this natural labor
movement can either make or break their level of production, service or care. How
communities deal with this issue can impact regional economic and work force
development. There are specific steps that can be taken to manage the effects of
natural job movement. The job migration mapping process can help regions to
effectively manage their labor pools.
Aligning Workforce & Economic Development
This first portion of the training will provide the audience with a basic
understanding of workforce development with particular emphasis placed on the
Workforce Investment Act of 1998 as well as other state and federal training
programs often used in economic development efforts. In its simplest terms,
Economic Development is the creation of wealth for all citizens. It’s also a
process by which local and state economies grow in “value” and “quality” as a
result of public and private sector investments in making development resources
more competitive and by strengthening the public policy climate governing
business and economic behavior within a geographic region. This portion of the
training will examine the elements of effective economic development, core
activities, and the use of community resources to serve business needs. This
training will focus on aligning activities and use of resources to advance common
goals. Best practices for collaboration on planning and service delivery will be
shared and opportunities within governance, strategies and tactics will be
explored. Attendees will have an opportunity to use the results from an exercise to
develop next steps and an implementation plan. Tools (worksheets and tasks) to
help them implement what was learned during the training will be provided.
There are tools for one person to use on his or her own and tools to use with a
group in a training or workshop setting which can be helpful in continuing the
partnership development efforts between workforce development and economic
development practitioners.
Developing a Business Solutions Menu of Services
This two-day workshop will outline proven strategies for developing effective
business programs and services. Based on the notion that the relationship
between employment and training programs and the business community works
best when it is viewed and functions as a mutually beneficial partnership, this
workshop will identify four basic areas of consideration: what can employers offer
employment and training programs; what can employment and training programs
offer employers; approaches to developing the business partnership; and
benefits to both parties. Specific areas to be addressed include customized
training, on-the-job training, placement and job development, assessment and
screening, internships for youth, industry clusters and business consortia,
incumbent worker training, pre-employment training, integration and promotion of
state and local resources for business and industry and innovative strategies for
partnering with state economic development training incentives.
Effective Assessment Strategies
This workshop will assist staff to understand and interpret the results of
evaluations and assessments. Staff will go away from the workshop with the
understanding that giving tests is not the same as using them and that it is
important to interpret appropriately for each individual customer's needs.
Emphasis will also be given to areas such as the importance of interpreting
assessments accurately, clearly and simply, avoid intimidating terms (IQ, normal,
weakness, deficit, etc.), not using technical jargon unless absolutely necessary,
and defining confusing terms that must be used. In addition, the workshop will
cover related information such as understanding reliability and validity, repetitious
explanations, relation of data to other sources of information and most
importantly, documentation of reviewing an assessment with a customer.
Job Club Development/Comprehensive Job Search Workshop
This “train-the-trainer” workshop covers and emphasizes preparing and assisting
customers in discovering their tools for true direction in a successful career path
based upon assessment, interests, and demand occupations. It will emphasize
the importance of helping customers discover job search methods that work,
accessing the hidden job market and existing labor market information, learning
to write an effective resume, improving communication skills, building networking
skills, employing specific interview techniques, and making work skills
transferable.
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