Transcript Board Meeting 11/9/2006 - North Shore Workforce Investment Board

National Business Learning
Partnership ll
Match Meeting
November 1 - 3, 2006
Why we want to participate
in the NBLP ll
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Positive experience in the National
Business Learning Partnership (Round l);
Natural next step in advancing our
practices of looking at data-research and
analysis; and
Some people say “You don't really know
something until you try to teach it…”
Specific Highlights of our Program
Local Blueprints
 Labor Market Reports
 Data Mining (Career Center Staff)
 ‘Secret Shopper/Point of Contact’
Data Collection
 Data Analysis Academy
 Our philosophy of “no secrets” – data is a
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good thing and is not used to penalize or to build unhealthy competition
but is used to continually improve our ability to help the customer
Working with a Protégé
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We are involved in the NPLP to share and learn…
We see value in partnering over a two year time-frame
to examine and refine our own ways of looking at data
and doing business…
We would like multiple stakeholders to be involved in
the partnership, i.e. board members to customer
service representatives…
Together we would like to try new approaches to peerto-peer learning…
(one thought might be – http://nblpll.blogspot.com/)
A Match was Made!
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Eastern Plains New Mexico Council of Governments…12
counties (1 Indian Reservation) comprise WIB
Location - Boarder with Texas (45,000 square miles)
Labor Force – 120,000 (NSWIB = 215,000)
Sector Priorities – Health Care, Cannon Air Base, Food
Processing/agriculture
Areas we will work together in….
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Community Mapping Audit (Blue Print)
Identify Suitable Database Retrieval System
Establish Data Academy Partnerships
New ways of on-line communication
http://nblpll.blogspot.com/
Team Blog – with
Multiple Contributors
Links can be
posted…
Project Plan, Reports
and other documents can
be posted and archived..
Multiple stakeholders can
read and participate in the
project..