In order to help regions create jobs, workforce and economic developers need to work together. However, this can only happen when the players understand the tactical issues involved.

1. From Boardroom to
Resource Room:
Translating Strategy

2. Perspective….
Production to Design to
Administration:
JTPA Client
WIA Job Counselor / Developer
Planner & Program Design
Economic Development
WIB
Over past 26 years:
What has worked?
What hasn’t, and why?

3. “Each material has its specific characteristics which
we must understand if we want to use it.”

4. Problems:
Culture (deal vs. social); Funding (regs); Goals
(high wage vs. low labor costs); Timeframes (Eco

5. “Architecture starts when you carefully
put two bricks together…..
…. There it begins.” Mies van der Rohe, 1959

6. Local Strategy based on Local
Partnerships and Local Strengths
Does it Make Sense? Is it “natural”
for your area? Can it be sustained?
Forced partnerships, forced cluster
development, false assumptions,
unrealistic scale
Self Interest, Need, Champions, Funding,…..

7. Tactics: The Bricks….
SWOT: Cost Allocation Methods, BAR,
Documentation Processes, Staffing,
Assessment, Tools, Outreach, Training
Formats and Platforms, Customers (small
business?), Partner Roles, Data &
Information

8. “God is in the details.”
Mies van der Rohe, 1959

9. Workforce Boards are the logical “common
space” for Convening, Collaborating and
Coordinating vested partners in leveraged

10. Primary Role:
Workforce Development MANAGES the Mining,
Manufacture, Processing, Q.C., Inventory and Distribution of
regional Talent and Skills

11. “We must remember that
everything depends on how
we use a material, not on
the material itself. We must
be as familiar with the
functions of our buildings as
with our materials. We must
learn what a building can be,
what it should be, and also
what it must not be.”
Mies van der Rohe, 1938