Building a Contemporary Workforce AESA Summer Leadership Conference

Pro tip #1: Navigating the Maze To build a contemporary workforce in your organization, try to offer lattice pathways and emphasize growth rather than promotion in career development. Here’s a helpful link: Deloitte University Press Website bit.ly/workforcetips2016

Pro tip #2: Upsetting the Apple Cart To build a contemporary workforce in your organization, try disrupting the status quo to encourage growth. “Diverse teams perform better but feel worse.” bit.ly/workforcetips2016

Pro tip #3: continuous improvement Put processes in place for gathering feedback and listening to staff. Build a structure for continuous improvement that focuses on performance excellence. bit.ly/workforcetips2016

Pro tip #4: retention strategy To build a contemporary workforce in your organization implement a strategic employee retention strategy. Some examples include a FitBit program, incentives for continuing education and growth, creating a culture that people want to be a part of, etc. Introduce yourself to five staff members this year. bit.ly/workforcetips2016

Pro tip #5: Time for Personal/Professional Growth To build a contemporary workforce in your organization, allow staff time for personal/professional growth. Give them time for innovation and to earn recognition such as micro- credentials. Here’s a helpful link with more information: bit.ly/workforcetips2016

Pro tip #6: technology solutions for a diverse pool To build a contemporary workforce in your organization, try utilizing technology solutions that will provide a more diverse and equitable applicant pool. Here are a couple of helpful link with more information: bit.ly/workforcetips2016

Pro tip #7: Bias Elimination In Hiring #BE To build a contemporary workforce in your organization, try eliminating bias in your hiring practices. 6 Ways to Remove Hiring Bias from the Recruitment Process recruitment-process/ #BE bit.ly/workforcetips2016

Pro tip #8: MANAGE UNCONSCIOUS BIAS To build a contemporary workforce in your organization, try to build systems throughout your organization that deliberately manage unconscious bias. Here’s a helpful link with more information: Also, here’s a pic… at-work/ bit.ly/workforcetips2016

Pro tip #9: GROW YOUR LEADERS To build a contemporary workforce in your organization, try...building trust through a consistent leadership training, including consistent language, leadership philosophy, decision making, and agreed upon values. Here’s a helpful link with more information: greatteams.php greatteams.php bit.ly/workforcetips2016

Pro tip #10: create a co.lab To build a contemporary workforce in your organization, try to dedicate time each week when your team all works in a collaborative space, working independently and together, in an ad hoc, dynamic, and organic way. This will give individuals outlets to be creative, and to do their work in a new and innovative environment. Here’s a helpful link with more info: centerforinnovation.mayo.edu Also, here’s a pic of a collaborative space allowing this work to happen...

Pro tip #11: Lattice organization To build a contemporary workforce in your organization, try allowing multiple work and career pathways by utilizing a lattice organization. This is an organization structured so that work is largely self-directed and self- managed by individual workers. It allows an organization to be more flexible and to adapt more quickly to changing market conditions. Here’s a helpful link with more information: organization-work-3846.html organization-work-3846.html 12

Pro tip #12: 4 Disciplines of execution To build a contemporary workforce in your organization, try Implementing the 4 Disciplines of Execution that can help to engage staff in the work that is important by developing a Wildly Important Goal (WIG) and lead measures, that are predictive and influenceable to improve lag measures. Here’s a helpful link with more information: bit.ly/workforcetips2016

Pro tip #13: Realize potential To build a contemporary workforce in your organization, try to create opportunities to grow and realize professional, intellectual, emotional, and social potential. bit.ly/workforcetips2016

Pro tip #14: Align with the mission To build a contemporary workforce in your organization, try to recruit and retain individuals whose needs are aligned with needs, the mission, and vision of the organization. bit.ly/workforcetips2016

Pro tip #15: Allow your ESA become a pathway to districts To build a contemporary workforce in your organization, try providing a lattice pathway that allows employees in your ESA to go back into districts in leadership positions. Also, here’s a pic of a lattice arbor. An arbor bridges two buildings. bit.ly/workforcetips2016

Pro tip #16: Providing opportunities to learn about roles To build a contemporary workforce in your organization, providing opportunities for employees to shadow and/or observe other roles. Now, employees realize how their job is impacted by others. Also, here are two pics of job shadowing and transparency. bit.ly/workforcetips2016

Pro tip #17: Build STrong supervisor/supervisee RElationships To build an antiracist multicultural organization, try...developing and training supervisors to engage in courageous conversations in order to build trust, accountability and respect Here’s a helpful link with more information:PSESD’s Racial Equity PolicyPSESD’s Racial Equity Policy bit.ly/workforcetips2016

Pro tip #18: build cultural competencies To build a contemporary workforce in your organization, grow staff by employing strategies of empathy. Here’s a helpful link with more information: bit.ly/workforcetips2016

Pro tip #19: Measure Engagement To build a contemporary workforce in your organization, try to be intentional about measuring engagement levels of leadership and staff. Here’s a helpful link with more information: bit.ly/workforcetips2016

Pro tip #20: Analyze the recruiting process To build a contemporary workforce in your organization, make sure your job descriptions are attracting the right applicants. You can analyze the language of your position descriptions or postings through an application called Textio Here’s a helpful link with more information: Textio.com bit.ly/workforcetips2016

Pro tip #21: Generational Understanding To build a contemporary workforce in your organization, try: Generational understanding (in our workforce) Matters Hiring/Recognition/Compensation/Work Conditions(tele-commuting)/Evaluation/Personal Professional Growth and Learning (microcredentialling)/Coaching/Communication/Life Balance (paid community service/Purpose, Autonomy (Collaboration), Mastery/Demographically where do our people fall in the NCESD?/Workspace Matters/”Creating ‘brave’ spaces” - internal communications in a meaningful way/Lattice vs. ladder structure Diversity starts at the job description and carries it’s way through. bit.ly/workforcetips2016

Pro tip #22: Welcome to our culture To build a contemporary workforce in your organization, try … To define clearly how all employees are expected to think, act & interact. Here’s a helpful link with more information: Also, here’s a pic… bit.ly/workforcetips2016

Pro tip #23: Power in our differences To build a contemporary workforce in your organization, try … To recognize the diverse needs of your workforce and utilize this a your strength. bit.ly/workforcetips2016 Here’s a helpful link with more information: Also, here are some pics…