How Businesses Can Implement Sector Workforce Development Strategies for Jobs and Economic Growth

This how-to booklet is intended to guide businesses and business associations affiliated with the National
Association of Manufacturers (NAM), as well as local chambers and other business-led organizations, on
effective ways to bring businesses within an industry together; determine solutions required to meet their
workforce needs, as well as those of their workers; develop regional pipelines of skilled workers; and advocate
for public policies that support those pipelines.

This guide provides a step-by-step method for bringing
together partnerships that connect individual efforts, social supports, training and education, and highroad
employment. It contains practical advice to help business associations take on the role of industrycentric
workforce intermediaries, help employers create modern and sought-after workplaces and create
cadres of business champions to speak out publicly on the need to develop a modern manufacturing
workforce.

Full Guide: http://www.nam.org/s_nam/bin.asp?CID=201492&DID=239166&DOC=FILE.PDF

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How to develop CEO spokespeople who can effectively communicate the importance of employer investments in workforce development

We believe that CEOs need to step up and speak out about the importance of these issues to the 21st-century
workforce and to the future of manufacturing in the United States. We hope that the information and tools
provided in this guide will help you identify additional CEOs willing to do so.

Full Guide: http://www.nam.org/s_nam/bin.asp?CID=201492&DID=239164&DOC=FILE.PDF

(Thanks again to Ed Morrison for bringing these reports to our attention. Russ)