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Innovations for Success: Skill Panels

Innovations for Success: Skill Panels. Mike Brennan Washington State Workforce Training and Education Coordinating Board January 17 th , 2006 North West Food Processors EXPO Portland, OR. What do Industry Skill Panels do?.

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Innovations for Success: Skill Panels

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  1. Innovations for Success: Skill Panels Mike Brennan Washington State Workforce Training and Education Coordinating Board January 17th, 2006 North West Food Processors EXPO Portland, OR

  2. What do Industry Skill Panels do? • Address the largest barrier to business expansion identified by Washington’s employers: the shortage of skilled workers How? • Assess current and future skill needs • Implement strategies to meet skill needs • Provide workers with better skills, jobs, career growth • Provide employers with more efficiency, less turnover, higher profits • Enable direct access to market information and needs

  3. Aerospace Agriculture and Food Processing Biotechnology Computer Game Software Construction Electronics Energy Health Care Homeland Security Information Technology Life Sciences Manufacturing – Advanced, Wood Product, and Rural Maritime Marine Technology and Services Medical Devices Transportation What industries have been served since 2001?

  4. Washington has created 28 Industry Skill Panels since 2001 Can be convened by: • Workforce Development Councils • Chambers of Commerce • Community and Technical Colleges • Apprenticeships • Business or Trade Associations • Private Career Schools • Economic Development Councils

  5. What does one look like?

  6. Examples of Industry Skill Panel products • Developed skill standards for the energy and electronics industries • Developed modular curricula for the manufacturing and biotechnology industries • Expanded apprenticeship in health care and construction industries • Developed articulation agreements with mulitple levels of the education system • Coordinated industry support to expand capacity of health care programs • Developed customized training for entry level workers and limited English speaking populations in agriculture, construction, manufacturing and health care industries

  7. How have Industry Skill Panels increased collaboration? • By giving companies an important leadership role in workforce development design • By enhancing the effectiveness of state investments (Workforce, Economic Development and Education) • By leveraging existing resources and supporting the acquisition of new funding • By finding innovative ways to streamline training and services

  8. Where do I go for more information? • The State Board for Community and Technical Colleges: • http://www.sbctc.ctc.edu/workforce/default.asp • Workforce College:http://www.workforcecollege.com/ • Your regional Workforce Development Council: • http://www.washingtonworkforce.org/about/councils.php • Your local Economic Development Councils: • http://www.cted.wa.gov/_CTED/documents/ID_1121_Publications.doc • The Workforce Board Directory of services: • http://www.wtb.wa.gov/wfd.pdf

  9. Additional information….. Mike Brennan, Economic Development Workforce Specialist (360) 586-8683 mbrennan@wtb.wa.gov www.wtb.wa.gov

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