LEADERSHIP STRATEGIES FROM THE CENTRAL CALIFORNIA WORKFORCE COLLABORATIVE

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LEADERSHIP STRATEGIES FROM THE CENTRAL CALIFORNIA
WORKFORCE COLLABORATIVE

• WORKFORCE INVESTMENT BOARDS AND COMMUNITY COLLEGE
  PARTNERSHIPS

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OVERVIEW OF PRESENTATION

• Introductions
• Audience Survey
• What is Leadership and Partnership?
• History of Central California Workforce
  Collaborative
• History of San Joaquin Valley Partnership
• Partnership Projects between WIBs and Colleges
• Questions and Answers

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INTRODUCTION OF PANEL

• George Boodrookas, Dean of Community and Economic
  Development, Modesto Junior College
• James Chin, Ed.D., Dean of Instruction, Madera
  Center
• Elaine Craig, Executive Director, Madera County
  Workforce Investment Board
• Andrea Baker, Director, Merced County Department
  of Workforce Investment

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AUDIENCE SURVEY

• How many are from Community Colleges?
• Of those, how many are represented on their local
  WIB?
• How many are from the workforce development
  system?
• Of those, how many are represented on their local
  WIB?
• Who else? Economic Development, Private Sector,
  etc?
• Familiarity with the Collaborative, San Joaquin
  Valley Partnership?
• Share Leadership and Partnership Success Stories!
  (At End of Presentation)

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DEFINITION OF LEADERSHIP

• Leadership is the lifting of peoples vision to
  a higher sight, the raising of their performance
  to a higher standard, the building of their
  personality beyond its normal limitations.
  (Drucker, 1985)
• Inspiring others in a shared vision, ability to
  affect, direct, influence human behavior so as to
  accomplish a mission or a goal.

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DEFINITION OF PARTNERSHIP

• A partnership is defined as a relationship
  between two or more parties, having compatible
  goals, who form an agreement to share the work,
  share the risk and share the results or proceeds.
  Having the right people at the right time doing
  the right things distinguishes the great
  partnership.
• The Partnership
  Handbook

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WHAT PARTNERSHIP IS NOT

• A true partnership does not exist when
• there is just a gathering of people who want to
  do things
• there is a hidden motivation
• there is an appearance of common ground but
  actually many agendas exist
• there is tokenism or the partnership was
  established just for appearances
• one person has all the power and/or drives the
  process or
• there is no sharing of risk, responsibility,
  accountability and benefits.

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GLASERS TURF THEORY
sharing
discovering
partnering
protecting
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LEADERSHIP IN PARTNERSHIP

• Passion Inspiration Direction Mission
  Stamina Champion
• People Need Circumstances Time Funding
  Source Solid Partnership
• It takes champions AND the right conditions to
  create AND nurture partnership

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COVEYS CIRCLE OF INFLUENCE
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CONCENTRIC RINGS OF PARTNERSHIP

• Unit Level
• Organization Level
• Local Level
• Regional Level
• State Level
• National Level

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THE NEED FOR PARTNERSHIP

• 8 Counties from Kern to San Joaquin
• 20.5 poverty rate in 2000
• 40,215 median family income
• 13 of poorest 100 counties in the nation!
• 13.1 hold a bachelors degree
• 111 growth rate from 1975 to 2005
• WIRED Proposal, 2005

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THE NEED FOR PARTNERSHIP

• Continued reductions in funding both at the state
  and federal level
• Requires leveraging and partnering of valuable
  and shrinking resources
• Grant opportunities are consistently requiring
  partnerships across agencies and counties and
  other boundaries!

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CENTRAL CALIFORNIA WORKFORCE COLLABORATIVE

• Informal meeting of WIB Directors in the Central
  Valley for many years
• Includes counties from Kern/Inyo, Mother Lode,
  San Luis Obispo and up to San Joaquin
• More formalized in response to the San Joaquin
  Valley Partnership
• Meets every 6 weeks in Madera

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CENTRAL CALIFORNIA WORKFORCE COLLABORATIVE
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SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY PARTNERSHIP

• Higher Education and Workforce Work Group of the
  SJVP provided synergy.
• The Central California Workforce Collaborative
  (CCWC) made up of 8 WIBs in the region, received
  a 1M Governors grant to strengthen the regions
  workforce system.
• Projects include Community Colleges and Economic
  Development.

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PARTNERSHIPS/PROJECTS

• Community Based Job Training Grant
• 3 WIBs Madera, Merced and Stanislaus.
• 3 Community Colleges Madera Center, Merced
  College, and Modesto Junior College.
• 1.85 M from the DOL
• 111 LVNs trained in the region

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PARTNERSHIPS/PROJECTS

• Career Advancement Academies
• WIBs and Community Colleges varying programs in
  each area
• Recruitment, WorkKeys assessment and Work
  Readiness Certificate being provided

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PARTNERSHIPS/PROJECTS

• Central California Workforce Collaborative Grant
• Just in Time Training Fund Bakersfield College
  holds ETP contract for Employer training which
  WIBs can access.
• WorkKeys Regional Skills Standards implemented
  and remediation tool put in place.
• WorkKeys Job profiling capacity established.
• Business Intelligence Tool regional initiative.

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PARTNERSHIPS/PROJECTS

• Environmental Scanning/Trend Analysis.
• Business survey identifying labor force needs.
• Training survey and Gap analysis.
• Website for regional data placement
• Pilot National Manufacturing Skills Standard
  Certificate and skill development in Merced and
  Tulare.

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PARTNERSHIPS/PROJECTS

• WIA 15 Governors Grant
• Four WIBs partnered to provide training in
  manufacturing occupations
• Community Colleges and employers participate in
  providing the training
• 600,000 awarded to train 82 additional
  individuals in the region in areas of maintenance
  technician/mechanic, welding, etc.

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PARTNERSHIPS/PROJECTS

• Ability to benefit classes/programs in Merced
• Merced College and WIB/Worknet of Merced partner
  - Offering Basic Education classes for those
  students who failed the Ability to Benefit test
  to qualify for courses and financial aid.
• Merced College provides the instruction in the
  evening.
• Worknet provides the space and
• the Computer Lab for students to
• prepare to take the test again.

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PARTNERSHIPS/PROJECTS

• Youth Connect Class with Madera WIB/One Stop and
  Madera Center
• New programs and delivery methods being
  considered and implemented at Madera Center
  Maintenance Mechanic, LVN to RN program, SLPA
• Monthly meetings to address needs, issues, etc.
• Potential future staffing located at Madera
  Center from WIB

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AUDIENCE QA

• Leadership and Partnership What is it to you?
• Success Stories/Best Practices
• Challenges
• Future?