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 The
Workforce Development Board’s 2002 Strategic Planning
focused on Goal Five of the Board’s strategic goals
originally developed in 2000. That goal is to facilitate creative
approaches to macro workforce issues in collaboration with
other organizations. Three key initiatives were developed
to address the macro workforce issues of labor shortages,
skyrocketing health care costs in Southeastern Wisconsin and
the multiple options to a four-year college degree for skills
training and career success.
Selection and Oversight Committee
- Increase employer awareness of the
labor shortage and utilization of creative approaches to
minimize the impact of a workforce shortage.
ACTION
PLAN
- Provide industry-specific labor market
information to employers through various means and far enough
in advance to allow for planning to minimize the labor or
skill shortage.
- Communicate
with W-O-W Economic Development Committees and area Chambers
of Commerce.
- Develop and investigate Nursing refresher
courses similar to the program offered by Waukesha Area
Technical College for capacity expansion to address the
immediate nurse shortage.
- Create a library
of information about possible solutions to labor and skill
shortages.
Workforce Development Committee
- Create
multiple vehicles for the collective voice of area employers
to be heard on the negative impact of rising health care
costs.
ACTION
PLAN
- Investigate
and evaluate the work currently being done in addressing
this issue by these other entities: Mayor Norquist’s
Taskforce; Governor McCallum’s Listening Sessions;
Economic Summit III; Wisconsin Department of Health and
Family Services- Bureau of Healthcare Financing; and UW
System.
- Identify the
causes of the problem.
- Determine further
actions needed.
- Create an advocacy
position and determine what needs to be communicated and
how.
Youth Council
- Create a measurable shift
in perception, within two years, regarding career success
options for high school graduates among students, their
parents and school counselors.
ACTION
PLAN
- Include education
information in the Youth Council PowerPoint presentation
used to market the services and issues for youth preparing
for careers.
- Develop and provide resource
material about successful people whose training was other
than a four-year college degree.
- Include career options.
- Approach various service clubs
and fraternal organizations about diversifying scholarships
to include students whose postsecondary education is other
than a four-year college degree.
- Increase collaboration with the
technical colleges’ Career Center managers to ensure
that youth, their parents and school counselors have access
to Workforce Development Centers and center services.
- Review the initiatives of the
area School-to-Work coordinators and identify potential
collaborations with the Youth Council.
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