workforce development academy

Building business and industry partnerships.

A significant resource offered by the Clements Group is our business partnership development services.  This component is implemented to work concurrently with the workforce development and grant/resource development offices.

Attend the WDA to learn how to implement a business and industry partnership development initiative to enhance your institution's relationship with local business and industry.  The process includes the systematic implementation of a series of industry-focused business partnership development forums and reports to identify and quantify opportunities, including:

• Outlining the goals and objectives from the the institution's strategic plan that correspond to business partnership outreach
• Establishing a sustainable, systematic approach to gather counsel from the industries linked to both workforce and academic areas
• Assisting to identify alternative funding and financing strategies for the goals and objectives as outlined by the strategic plan, including partnerships in public and private grant programs
• Building internal advancement teams focused on enhancing the college's economic development and workforce development initiatives and community program outreach
• Hosting industry forum(s) to identify challenges/issues faced by partnering organizations
• Further positioning the institution as a driving force to impact local and regional economic development and promoting public awareness of the college as "innovator" and "business friendly"
• Creating reach in strategic local and regional industries to expand the college's impact on workforce development
• Enhancing awareness of additional services with top executive leaders in organizations that are currently partnered with the institution
• Cultivating relationships with 35-50 partnering prospects in each industry
• Advancing 10 to 15 qualified key leaders and companies per industry to build partnership agreements
• Developing business partnership advancement concepts for current and new programs to address specific industry issues based on the counsel and advice provided by recognized industry leaders during the forums
• Utilizing information to leverage the needs identified and documented by the business partnership forum process in resource development and grant proposal creation (project development and implementation)

* Dates and events are subject to change. Please email inquiries to Amy Pollock, CG’s Associate Vice-President of Programs and Services:  apollock@clmgroup.com.