Promising Practices
The BEST Initiative projects have experimented and piloted new ways of doing things that may be helpful to organizations who are doing sectoral and career ladder programs.
These "promising practices" can be a process, an approach, tool, or program design that offers a new perspective on handling day-to-day "real life" challenges and activities. From time to time, we will provide some of these innovative ideas, hoping that they will be useful to our readers.
Here are a few ideas:
The Southeast Massachusetts Manufacturing Consortium, was faced the challenge of enrolling hundreds participants in various classes. They were concerned about how to handle waiting lists. In order to offer equitable access to the cross-company training, they created online enrollment of participants completed on the internet by each enrollee. This made it easier to organize classes, establish waiting lists, communicate training details to the participants, and create reports.
The Metro South/West Hospital Industry project has offered ESOL classes to some of their participants. At one of their hospitals, the instructor (in collaboration with floor supervisors) created language-related activities that the participants could use during their workday that would help them practice their new skills.
The Northeast Regional Hospital Partnership is creating a website where hospitals can list their "real-time" job openings, and colleges can list their medical related graduates. It is hoped that this site will facilitate the quick hire of new graduates, therefore filling hospital vacancies.
The Biomanufacturing Training Consortium has assembled a collaboration of employer partners who have successfully created a bio-technology employee "screening tool" that can be used by the One-Stop Career Centers to identify potential employees.
The Boston Health Care and Research Industry Training Institute has protected the proprietary knowledge (such as trade secrets) of their hospital partners by instituting a couple of guidelines:
No information given by a hospital would be shared with another.
Partnership issue discussions take place in the larger group meetings, but decisions are made in a private setting.
Do you need more information on the above "promising practices" or have an idea to share? Contact us.
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