1. Next Generation Sector Partnerships
Demand Focused
Program Focused
Program Led
Industry Led
Single Purpose
Diverse Priorities
Few Employers
Critical Mass of Industry Leadership
Focus Group Model
Shared Ownership Model
Advisory Board
Next Gen Sector Partnership
Key Features of Partnerships
Industry-led
Agendas are based on industry- determined priorities, not public programs.
Partnerships of businesses from the same industry, in a shared labor market region, working with partners to address the workforce and competitiveness needs of the targeted industry.
Community-supported
Public partners from workforce development, economic development, and education work together to convene and support Next Gen Sector Partnerships.
Sustainable over time
Since Next Gen Sector Partnerships are organized around the topic that interests business leaders most--what it takes to ensure that their company thrives--they are sustainable over time.
CA Slingshot Initiative
Sector strategies have been around forever.
Work into intention of demand driven – Understand labor market information, data driven, respond to what companies need so (Industry Sectoral Training Programs)
Intentionality of partners brought to the table
Shared agenda driven by sector partners (growth agenda)
WF & Ed is typically top priority, supply chain issues (early wins & momentum builders) – long term talent issues
Public sector sits outside the table – allows for understanding of industry demands (listening role)
Public sector can still participate in solution, but process maintains industry voice at the center
Public Sector relationships are foundational to process before coordinated call to action to understand what drives the local economy and determine which industries warrant coordinated action of next gen sector partnership (not just more, better, independent stronger partnerships)
Requires workforce boards to work together (co-staffing)
Categories of Benefit
Greater impact on the industry – Ways to begin tracking & calculating impact on individual companies (changes in internal ops, HR/recruitment, b to b connections, bidding on bigger contracts, new ideas – cluster growth
Common Mistakes
WF/Ed jumps too quickly to a solution (belief that there is already a solution)
Wins in days
Already engaged in collective impact? Next Gen Sector Partnerships can be utilized to inform priorities and improve career readiness in key industries.
Adapted from The Woolsey Group and National Governors Association
Adapted from NextGenSectorPartnership.com