Your Name: Your E-mail: Your State: Your Topic Area:

Your Name: Your e-mail: Your State: Your Topic Area:

Building Workforce Development Networks with Strategic Doing A Strategic Doing Pack Strategic Action Plan Session Dallas, May 7, 2009 Ed Morrison Linda Fowler

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Here’s a map of re-engagement pathways v. 1.0. We will be using this map to help us keep our thinking straight. Our session will focus on how to develop networks to improve the productivity and speed of our youth, re-employment and green jobs strategies.

Youth initiatives focus on opportunities to collaborate

Green Jobs focuses on training opportunities in clean energy and energy efficiency

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The Strategic Doing cycle Figure out how to adapt and learn

What could we do together?

Based on Asset Mapping and connecting the assets to new opportunities

How will we learn together?

What should we do together?

Draft an action plan to keep on track

Choose the one or two most transformative initiatives you can do

What will we do together?

Strategic Doing is a civic discipline to guide open innovation What could we do together?

Moving around the Strategic Doing Cycle with Strategic Doing Packs

Explore Evaluations

How will we learn together?

Insights

Learn

Focus

What should we do together?

Initiatives

Action Plans

Strategic conversations are difficult to keep on track. We can use workshop exercises to make sure that we are focusing our conversations on the critical components of our strategy: defining clear strategic outcomes; identifying partners who are aligned with this outcome; creating clear initiative (or project) plans; makiing commitments in an action plan; and defining a process for continuous revision and refinement. We compile these workshop exercises into a document called a Strategic Doing Pack

Launch What will we do together?

I. Our Strategic Outcome II. Our initiatives to achieve the outcome III. Our metrics to measure progress toward our outcome IV. Our next steps to implement our initiatives V. Our process to stay connected and revise our strategy

Launching and Revising a Strategic Action Plan for Collaborations By following the disciplines of Strategic Doing we generate a strategic action plan...Our first version (very rough) is an alpha plan, Our next plan is more complete (a beta plan). When we are ready to distribute our strategic action plan more widely, we launch with Version 1.0. Then comes versions 1.1; 1.2; 1.3 and so on...

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Exercise 1: Pick a strategic focus area (20 minutes) Select

Focus Area

Examples of New Networks Forming

Short Term Opportunities Early warning networks and Rapid Response/ transition management Actionable workforce data and information

WARN Notices; Real-time information from employers; trend sharing Rapid Response initiatives; Direct re-employment strategies; worksharing Re-employment eligibility assessments; Auto Coder; enhanced profiles

Skill assessments

Establishing a green jobs network

Green jobs

Create networks and strategic outcomes for youth

Youth

Longer Term Opportunities Competency-based assessments; more effective targeting; triage models

Skills transferability Flexible service delivery and training options

New OJT options; new short-term training options; on-line options; stackable training; entrepreneurship training; portable training profiles

Unemployment Insurance system integration

Stronger integration of assessments between UI and services

Technology

New information products and on-line data tools

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Exercise 2: Define a strategic outcome for your focus area (40 minutes) What are the outcomes you are trying to achieve? Define your outcome in terms of a clear, concise picture of how things will be different. Write a clear statement of an outcome in the space below. Think about 2 to 3 characteristics that allows you to describe in compelling terms. Example: Creating a UI/ WIA integration that includes one capture of core data; with cross-trained staff; and a responsive mentor network

1.

2.

3.

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Exercise 3: Define one initiative for your focus area (20 minutes) What is one solid initiative that you can start that will move you toward your outcome? (Example: Launch a cross-training program for UI and WIA staff that includes job shadowing, webinars, and mentoring)

Who are the core partners in your network? Who has an interest in this initiative? (Example: a representative panel of job seekers, the local chamber of commerce, the local community college, industry associations.) Partner 1 Contact: Partner 2: Contact: Partner 3: Contact: Partner 4: Contact:

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Exercise 4: Define your action plan and next steps for your initiative. Action Step

Who is Responsible

By When

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Exercise 5: Define your process of reconnecting and learning together. Action Step

Who is responsible?

By When

Putting the Strategic Doing Pack on line

Getting back together to work on version 1.1 of your Strategic Action plan. (Hint: you need to get back together within 30-60 days)

Staying connected (Describe how you will stay connected through e-mail, teleconferences, webinars, blogs)

Define how you will make revisions to your Strategic Action Plan based on new data, new opportunities, new partners, lessons learned:

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