Training Employees
The Online Navigator: Federal and State Online Resources to Help You Grow Your Business
(Winter 2005) Online Toolkit Employers across the nation and within all industries share a common understanding – a qualified and well-trained workforce is one of the most critical factors to sustained growth and competitiveness. Whether you need help in hiring new employees or training and educating your existing staff, the Online Navigator can help you connect to available low or no cost resources.
Employer-Focused One-Stops: Businesses Getting the Most for Their Investment (Fall 2004) ORDER Hard CopyHundreds of one-stops across the country are meeting and exceeding employers' workforce development needs.And ICW has the names of the businesses and their stories to prove it.
Working Together: Creating Market-Responsive Workforce Solutions (Summer 2004) (CD) ORDER Hard Copy A CD guide for chambers of commerce and businesses, community colleges, and workforce professionals to work together in support of initiatives that develop the capacity of community colleges to meet the local employment needs of business. It highlights promising practices, key tactics and resources identified during ICW's regional forums held in four areas across the country during 2003-04.
A Chamber Guide to Improving Literacy: Higher Skills, Bottom-Line Results (PDF Winter 2002) (available online only) This toolkit describes the nature of the literacy problem in America, how it impacts local businesses and industries, and what local communities can do to increase local efforts aimed at improving the literacy skills of adults, especially their employees.
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