Download Strategic Planning Platform Long Island Decade One of the 21st

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Strategic Planning for Long Island
in the 21st Century
Economic Growth/Labor Force Issues
Long Island’s Key Growth Industries
What Business Needs to Succeed
Entry Level Workers – Are They Ready?
Staffing Your Industry
Training Your Staff
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Long Island’s Key Growth Industries
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Defense
Homeland Security
Biosciences
Information Technology
Health Care
Retail
Travel and Tourism
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Skills Your Employees Need for Your Business to Succeed
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Supervisory
New technology
Team building
Customer satisfaction
Blue print reading
Literacy training
Etc.
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Entry Level Workers – Are They Ready?
 Do they have the required basic (reading,
writing, math, communications), social and
work skills?
 Do they understand the organizational
culture?
 Do they share the organization’s ethics and
values?
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Recruitment – Steps to Market Your Staffing Needs
 Create a staffing and skill paradigm to help
attract workers to your industry
 Set up productive internships
 Get your message to schools and other
providers
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Education and Training Solutions
 Customized Training
 On-The-Job Training
 E-Learning
 Adult Education and Literacy
 Pre-Vocational Training
 Work Readiness
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Sectoral Approach
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Niche Labor Market
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Career Mapping
 Consultants funded by Workforce New York
 Long-term career progression pathways
 Framework for lifelong learning that begins with basic
skills and integrate education with work
 Shows individuals how to advance, particularly in high
wage, high growth fields such as IT and biotechnology
 Leads to higher level of skills, responsibility and wages
 Helps employers to attract and retain qualified workers
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Models for Addressing Skills Shortages in the Health Care Sector
 South Nassau Communities Hospital (SNCH)
Career Ladder Training to address the
shortage of registered nurses
 Winthrop University Hospital Leadership
Training for managers, administrators and
supervisors to increase retention of health
care workers
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RN Career Ladder
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Occupation
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RN (Four-Year Degree)
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RN (Two-Year Degree)
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LPN
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Nurse Aid
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Comfort Squad (Per Diem)
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Bed and Bath Squad (Per Diem)
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Health Care Management Training Topics
Effective Leadership
Communication
Strategic Planning
Marketing the Organization
Time and Project Management
Competitive Strategy
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Sample Resource Leveraging Plan
# Funding Source
Strategy
1 TANF Health Worker Training Initiative –
. Hospital Sector RFA (NYSDOL)
Train TANF eligible new hires as Nurse Aides
2 Supplemental General Hospital Recruitment
. and Retention Rate Adjustment Program
RFA (NYSDOH)
Equip incumbent workers in various
occupations with the skills necessary to retain
their current positions
3 Moving New York Forward: Career Ladders
. RFP (NYSDOL)
Train entry level, incumbent workers to move
up to the position of Senior Biller
4 WIA Adult Formula Customized Training
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Train Bed and Bath and Comfort Squad
incumbent workers to move up to Nurse Aide
5 WIA Statewide Assessment of Local Skills
. Shortages Phase II RFA (NYSDOL)
Train incumbent workers at various career
ladder rungs to advance to R.N.
6 Health Workforce Retraining Initiative RFP
. (NYSDOL/NYSDOH)
Train incumbent workers and new hires to
gain skills not addressed by other sources.
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i-Park (Biotechnology Sector)
Long Island Bioscience
Partners
Cooperative Training Center
Business Incubator
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BioPartners
 Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
 North Shore Long island Jewish Research
Institute
 Brookhaven National Laboratory
 Plum Island Animal Disease Control Center
 FDA Northeast Regional Laboratory
 State University of New York - Stony Brook
 Rockefeller University
 Columbia University
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Defense/Homeland Security/Aerospace Alliances
Aerospace and Defense
Diversification Alliance in
Peacetime Transition (ADDAPT)
Long Island Forum for Technology
(LIFT)
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Customized Training
 Designed to meet the special requirements of an
employer or group of employers
 Conducted with a commitment by the employer to
employ, or in the case of incumbent workers, continue
to employ an individual on successful completion of
training
 Employer pays for not less than 50 percent of the cost
of the training
 Results in significant wage gain for trainees
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Customized Training for Incumbent Workers
 The employee is not earning a self-sufficient
wage as determined by the Town of
Hempstead Workforce Investment Board (i.e.
40.00 per hour or less)
 The training relates to the introduction of new
technologies, introduction to new production
or service procedures, upgrading to new jobs
that require additional skills, workplace
literacy, or other appropriate purposes
identified by the Workforce Investment Board
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New York State Department of Labor Request For Applications
(RFA) Number 25-M ADVANCE New York
The New York State Department of Labor has
issued Request For Applications (RFA) Number 25M, entitled “ADVANCE-New York.” The purpose
of this Request for Applications (RFA) is to is to
support employer strategies and local efforts for
lifelong learning for the development of the
incumbent (employed) worker by providing funds
for upgrading the occupational skills of those
workers.
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New York State Department of Labor Request For Applications
(RFA) Number 25-M ADVANCE-NY (continued)
ADVANCE-NY will provide funds to businesses to train
incumbent workers in specific occupational skills needed by
that business or industry and that lead to career growth and
increased wages. The position(s) targeted for training must
exist and be filled at the time the application is submitted.
The applicant must demonstrate that the training will result
in the workers' acquisition of transferable occupational skills.
Public – that is federal, state, county and municipal employees are not eligible to be trained under this initiative.
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New York State Department of Labor Request For Applications
(RFA) Number 25-M, ADVANCE-NY (continued)
ADVANCE-NY uses Workforce Investment Act (WIA)
monies to address employer demands for skilled workers. The
program will fund projects that solve workforce problems by
addressing identified skilled worker shortages within an
industry or within a single employer's establishment through
promoting occupational skills upgrading for incumbent
workers.
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Pre-Vocational Skills Training
Learning Skills
Communication Skills
Interviewing Skills
Punctuality
Personal Maintenance Skills
Professional Conduct
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Customized Employment
• Individualizes the employment relationship
between employees and employers in ways
that meet the needs of both
• Based on an individualized determination of
strengths, needs, and interests of a person
with a disability
• Also designed to meet the specific needs of
an employer
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Business Service Team Vision
We envision an innovative, high quality service for
businesses on Long Island that establishes and maintains:
 Multiple points of entry where businesses can obtain
coordinated assistance in recruiting, training and developing
workers
 A customer-friendly process for leveraging available
resources from a variety of funding streams in response to
business, employment, community and economic
development needs
 A public-private sector partnership working to continually
improve the quality of the Long Island workforce, business
climate and economy
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Business Services Team Mission
 Plan, create and implement initiatives that help
businesses to hire, train, educate, upgrade and retain
skilled workers
 Collaborate to identify and access grant funds that will
assist businesses to develop our local workforce and
strengthen our economy
 Rapidly respond to changing needs of businesses,
with input from the business customer, to ensure
maximization of all available resources from the
workforce investment system
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Creative Recruitment Strategies
 Flexible Work Schedules
 Job Sharing
 Customized Employment/Job Carving
 Hiring Older Workers
 Internships
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Creative Training Strategies
• Industrial/Business Association Partnerships
• Mentoring
• Internships
• Apprenticeships
• Distance Learning/Teleconferencing
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Business Involvement in the Workforce System
• Membership on the LWIB, Youth Council, etc.
• Provide Labor Market Information
• Advocate/Champion
• Continuous Improvement Awards
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Contact Information
• www.workforcenewyork.org
• www.hempsteadworks.com
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Next Steps