A Series of 4 Half-day Workshops presented by Anita Lee Wright, Lynda Jean Groh and Milt Wright
Since September 11th we have been facing new challenges in the employment & training community. We have also become rescue workers for job seekers. Many new people who have been laid-off are coming through our door looking to us for hope and new opportunities.
It is very easy to get discouraged and pass on our feelings to these applicants. We have more people out of work, less job opportunities being posted and our caseloads have increased. Even with these scenarios, there are more opportunities within our grasp than we could possibly take full advantage of.
Milt Wright & Associates, Inc. is now offering a series of half-day workshops to help One-Stop Centers develop new approaches for these hard times. Program staff will learn ways to develop new employment opportunities for the unemployed and underemployed, as well as gain techniques for developing effective business services to create solutions for the challenges of today. The knowledge from each of these workshops is linked by the common need for Job Creation. The following is a description of the four workshops that offer the survival tools for today’s changing economy.
- Beyond Traditional Job Development
- Creative Avenues for Job Creation
- Developing Business Services
- Down to Brass TASKS
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SESSION ONE: Beyond Traditional Job Development [Half-Day Workshop]
Due to the downturn in hiring, employment & training organizations need to explore alternative ways of creating employment opportunities for program participants. This inspiring session will instill a fresh vision of opportunities in the work world. It offers a practical and proactive approach to job development; and challenges the employment professional to look beyond traditional methods for achieving placement results.
At the core of this workshop the employment proposal will be presented as a tool for placement professionals to increase placement opportunities. It is an avenue for all walks of life to uncover the wealth of their skills, abilities and assets and then develop practical proposals for their own job creation within local businesses. All participants who attend this training will receive a copy of Beyond Traditional Job Development: The Art of Creating Opportunity. This is an excellent book chockfull of new ideas. Delivered with numerous real-life examples, this workshop is as inspiring and mind-opening as it is relevant and timely to the needs of today’s employment professionals.
The focus of this training session will be:
- Rising to the challenge
- Creating new work opportunities with employment proposals
- Capitalizing on business and social trends
- Improving quality service to applicants and employers
- Learning creative ways to expand your employer base
SESSION TWO: Creative Avenues for Job Creation [Half-Day Workshop]
Now that you have attended the first workshop, you are ready to create new avenues for job creation through learning the techniques for teaching your applicants to develop their own employment proposals. This is a proactive “applicant’ based approach that focuses on what a person can do and what a person has to offer based on their unique talents, skills, and personal attributes that can result in profit for an employer as well as themselves. This is your opportunity to take the next step to opening the door by carrying the knowledge we have to solve the needs of our local business.
This workshop focuses on the creative integration of people into our business community.
- Learn what we know the most about.
- Learn who needs this information or skill.
- Learn what inspires people to take action and responsibility for
their own lives.
- Explore the avenues of non-traditional forms of job creation.
- Learn the true meaning of profit.
- Learn how the value and purpose of the employment proposal versus a resume.
- Learn how to create job possibilities where there seem to be no jobs.
All participants who attend this extremely unique and inspirational training will receive step-by-step instructions and tools on how to teach their participants to recognize their own potential from what they already know, to begin from right where they are and to determine their purpose by identifying what they have to offer. They will learn how to create jobs rather than just look for jobs. It is an additional approach one can use to add to your repertoire of employment services in this time of economic downturn. Let’s make it an upturn!
SESSION THREE: Developing Business Services [Half-Day Workshop]
The purpose of this workshop is to learn new approaches for improving relationships with the business community. When an employer tells you they have no job openings…do you walk away or are you prepared to ask other questions to gain a new understanding of the crucial workforce issues they are facing? If you understand these needs, are you able to provide ideas on where they can find solutions? Working with the business community to improve program performance will provide your agency with the necessary tools to:
- Develop new and ongoing relationships with employers.
- Increase placement opportunities.
- Gain a better understanding of the businesses who are hiring your applicants.
- Enhance the opportunity for increased wages for employed participants.
Participants who attend this training will learn:
- Basic ingredients of a Business Service strategy.
- Steps to implement an employer proposal to upgrade the skills of employed participants and other underemployed workers.
- Ideas for Value-Added services and information that can be utilized to recruit and maintain your business customers.
- The most frequently asked workforce issues of California businesses.
- Accessing Internet resources to help solve business problems.
- Strategies to increase placements and career advancement of program participants.
This is your opportunity to learn what is presently working with agencies that are providing Business Services. Learn from the success of others!
SESSION FOUR: Getting Down to Brass TASKS: Creating New Placement and Job Retention Opportunities
[Half-Day Roundtable Workshop]
This is a practical session for brainstorming solutions for creating new placement and job retention opportunities. This session is specifically designed to make what you have learned applicable to the needs of your applicants. It offers opportunities to address your specific questions and explore solutions. It is an essential workshop for any person who is responsible for helping participants identify their skills, abilities, and talents; and assisting in the process of finding and keeping a job.
Getting down to brass TASKS is an extraordinary 3-hour roundtable workshop that offers attendees the opportunity to see more than one side of work potential. Participants explore beyond what appears to be and learn to think out of the box to create a rewarding livelihood.
This is an excellent opportunity for a hands-on workshop to address your concerns:
- Strategize creative placement opportunities for your program participants.
- Problem solve participant issues in new ways.
- Develop vision and solutions to participant/employer problems through creative imagination.
- Develop quality customer service.
- Apply creative job retention strategies.
Place yourself in the position to create, to achieve, and to succeed. Collaborate with others to see new ways to help your participants, find and keep their right job.
