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Wednesday, April 4, 2012

9:00 – 11:30           Preconference Sessions             

Angela Richardson, The Grantsmanship Center, Los Angeles

This workshop uses The Grantsmanship Center’s proven Listen & Discuss, Do & Review approach to target the key elements that make proposals competitive. The workshop focuses on articulating and documenting problems, specifying measurable outcomes, and identifying logical methods. We’ll also examine how all the pieces of a proposal fit together and explore common proposal weaknesses.

Deane Toler, Geographic Solutions

Hear the latest update from the transition to the California Workforce Services Network (CWSN). During this session you’ll see for the first time a preview of the new CWSN system.  Review next steps for the implementation, and engage in questions and answers as we prepare to “go live.” Bring your MIS staff!

Imperial County Workforce Development Board 

This preconference session will provide an overview of lean thinking, introduce key lean concepts and outline their application to office processes.

Developed by Toyota in the early 1970s, lean principles are also used in offices for improving efficiency and reducing costs. Lean office is an operational strategy and methodology oriented toward achieving maximum efficiency and the shortest possible cycle time by eliminating non-value added activities (waste). Lean Office improvements can lead to efficiencies throughout an organization. As office processes are improved positive impacts in other key organization performance areas are gained.

NEW PRECONFERENCE SESSION ADDED!

Mitch Rosen, Director, McGraw-Hill Education

What does it mean to be work-ready? Clearly, it means having the hard and soft skills employers demand. Increasingly, the path to meeting these industry standards can be found in contextualized instruction. In this preconference session, you will learn the part that work readiness plays in our current national workforce crisis, why credentials are gaining increased recognition nationwide, and how you can prepare your customers for certification tests.

This dynamic session will explore how contextualized instruction and practice can help build applied workplace skills while helping learners develop a systematic, consistent, problem solving approach for success in test taking and real world situations.

Designing Your Own Conference Experience

This year’s Spring Conference incorporates new features that allow you to customize your own conference experience to better meet your individual needs. These include highly interactive forums called OPEN exCHANGE focused around specific topics, strategic Industry dialogues, peer led sessions sharing best practices, and skill enhancement trainings. These are indicated throughout the program and are featured during each set of break out sessions.

OPEN exCHANGE

OPEN exCHANGE is a dynamic forum where new ideas can be shared and debated. Initiated by thought leaders, participants have the option to join the exchange as they enter the “fish bowl” to provide new and stimulating ideas, provoking novel solutions to persistent challenges.

STRATEGIC INDUSTRY DIALOGUES

These industry led sessions offer a great opportunity to network and learn first hand the needs, niches and partnership opportunities that exist within some of our fastest growing and important sectors.

PEER-TO-PEER LEARNING

Seasoned workforce professionals will host presentations that feature successful strategies, programs and management practices, and lead discussions that respond to your burning issues.

SKILL ENHANCEMENT TRAINING

These trainings are designed to provide specific skills you can put to use immediately in your day-to-day work.

NEW IDEA MARKETPLACE

These “quickshops” will allow you to access resources that you may want to incorporate into your programs and services.

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