Are we ready to compete?

Key Question: Are we really addressing the issues? If yes, how? If no, why not?

To answer these questions:• What are the perceptions and dynamics impacting our work?• What are the issues?• How have we addressed this in the past? How’s that working?• How might we use systems to design to scale and use data to support that?

A Good Job

Perceptions…

            

      

      

            

      

      

Market Dynamics in the Recovery

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BIG ISSUES

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~7000 Students Drop

Out Every School Day.

That’s Enough Desks to Fill

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Critical Workforce Issues

Student Loans: A Trillion yet?

Funding Dynamics

Political Reality

Help?

Control of State Legislatures byParty

…and these minor items

• Higher Education Act

• Carl Perkins

• Pell

• ESEA

Ok, so your bright ideas are…

It’s about systems that work…

…systems that hold vision & build trust in communities

L E A D

Data Analysis & High Performance

• High performance is not about being all things to all people

•Rather, its about:1. Understanding the needs of your

customers2. Using data to inform investment and

service delivery strategies 3. Monitoring and continuously improving

the true impact of your system on the community it serves

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Market Dynamics in the Recovery

WHAT ARE THE STUDY RESULTS?

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EMSI – Real Results

What are Your “Needles”•What are some examples of needles you all have identified and are working to you move?

•What was the process of identifying these needles?

•How do you measure your progress?

Workforce CentralBlog Talk Radio

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March 28 – April 1 2014

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I am only one,But still I am one.I cannot do everything,But still I can do something;And because I cannot do everything,I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.

Edward Everett Hale