Mission and Strategy
Small and mid-size employers typically have no staff, nor a deliberate strategy, for worker training. Most of what they consider training is conducted as informal, unstructured one-on-one on-the-job training – the results of which are often underwhelming, underappreciated and underfunded by accounting departments for lack of metrics to measure the results. Without obvious job-relatedness, accountants and upper management tend to scrutinize related technical instruction as a pure cost unless a clear “value” proposition can be made. Large employers are not immune to these traits, however they can be even more cynical of outside support for internal training efforts. The number of small and mid-size employers that would appreciate this type of direct worker development support in Ohio is substantial.
The North-Central Ohio Employer-Based Worker Training Partnership is a 501c3 Non-profit organization based in Upper Sandusky, OH. Its mission is to be a clearinghouse for the most effective products and services for employers in the region. The NCOEBWBTP will coordinate with regional resources to help employers get the help they need and the support they deserve. It will, also, coordinate structured on-the-job training technical support to ensure each partner employer’s new-hires, incumbent workers and cross-trainees are trained to full capacity through accelerated means.
Strategy: To provide a closer collaboration between employers who wish to train the experts they need, every time. By better defining the employer need and building an internal structured on-the-job training infrastructure, each worker can be driven to complete mastery of the job. For employers who:
• need employee candidates with current and relevant core and industry-general skills,
• need structure, tools and technical support to quickly train entry-level workers to full job mastery
• need help navigating the maze of learning and training grants from the state of Ohio to offset the initial investment to drive workforce and worker development to a “world-class level”,
• need help partnering with the right regional economic development, educational institutions, career centers, k-12 institutions, state workforce development agencies, social/career services and grant funding agencies for relevant services
We are guided by a board made up of partner-employer’s management, partner-educational institution’s management, regional economic development partners and partner-workforce development agency leaders – all who have a stake in, and will benefit from, the partnership’s success by helping each partner employer and their workers thrive and grow.