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

August 17, 2007

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)