Workforce Innovations 2008

Check out this year's Workforce Innovations, the best place to learn about innovations in workforce development. A new network to stimulate collaborations across organizational and political boundaries is launching. Called Innovating Networks, the initiative is designed to help people learn more quickly how to connect with the information, people, tools and resources they need. Connect to Innovating Networks...

Technology-based Incumbent Worker Training

 
Small and medium sized business often can't afford to send their employees off the work site to participate in extended training programs.  So Westport Shipyards decided to bring the training to the employees by developing DVD-based training modules that could be completed by employees on site.

Westport Shipyards partnered with the Pacific Mountain Workforce Development Council and the Northwest Marine Manufacturing and Technology Skill Panel  to develop a visually interactive training tool to be shared regionally. The result was a DVD that allows incumbent workers to be trained on site during normal business hours with outstanding results.  read more...

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Feature: Metro Denver WIRED Initiative Q&A
Ledy Garcia-Eckstein, Executive director of the Metro Denver Wired Region

In our Metro Denver region we had the beginning of a working region, because in the economic development arena the Metro Denver Economic Development Corporation (Metro Denver EDC) already represented all nine counties... more