1. Regional Workforce &
Industry Cluster
Target Advisory Group
2015

2. Regional Workforce & Industry Cluster TAG:
Mission & Scope
Workforce Alignment
Goals
Our Critical Path
Timeline: Next Steps

3. 2014 Workforce Alignment Study
Highly mobile and educated workforce
Region attracts workers from across the state
Government sector accounts for over 40% of jobs
Wages are just 76% of the National Average Earnings
Health Care, Construction, Manufacturing and Accommodation & Food Service are projected to grow
The region produces a good proportion of the state’s Agricultural, Education & Engineering graduates

4. Mission:
Provide a skilled workforce for the evolving Flint Hills region.
2015 Workforce

5. “Geographic concentrations of interconnected companies and institutions (formal organizations) in a particular field.”
Michael Porter, 1998
2015 Workforce

6. What are our clusters?
Existing
Expanding
Emerging
2015 Workforce

7. What is a skill?
"A set of achievements, understandings and personal attributes that make individuals more likely to gain employment and to be successful in their chosen occupations".
Peter Knight & Mantz Yorke
Michael Porter
2015 Workforce

8. Where are our skills gaps?
Soft
Middle (Technical)
Expanding & Emerging
2015 Workforce

9. What is capacity? 2015 Workforce
The development of conditions that allow individual participants to build and enhance knowledge and skills. It also calls for the establishment of conditions that will allow individuals to engage in the "process of learning and adapting to change.”
Peter Knight & Mantz Yorke
Michael Porter
2015 Workforce

10. How do we gain capacity? 2015 Workforce Internal – within individuals
External – within organizations & communities
Relational – between individuals & organizations
2015 Workforce

11. Goals: Create a Regional Workforce Development Organization
Market the region
Retain & recruit skilled workers
Advocate for workforce needs
Educate about the workforce
Identify skills gaps
Train for skills
Ensure transportation, housing and other benefits meet the needs of the workforce
region

12. Our Critical Path: 2015 Workforce
Recruitment & Retention of Skilled Workforce
Analysis of Best Practices from other Communities
Skills Gap Analysis
Alignment of Industry & Education (i.e. “Learn a Living”)
Build Capacity, through Community & Long-Range Planning
Transportation
Amenities
Housing
Benefits
2015 Workforce

13. Building a responsive system to adapt to our changing needs.
2015 Workforce

14. Regional Workforce & Industry Cluster 2015 Workforce
Target Advisory Group
Capacity Skills Clusters
2015 Workforce