The Future of Workforce Learning and Development

Do you need to make meaningful change to improve products, services, processes, or organizational effectiveness and create new value for stakeholders? Whether your organization faces the challenges and opportunities of Integrated Supply Chain and Logistics Analytics, Performance-Based Logistics or Global Supply Chain and Logistics, you need a highly-skilled workforce for performance excellence and sustainability. Join us in an insightful discussion with Page Siplon, Executive Director of the Georgia Center of Innovation for Logistics as we explore various aspects of innovation including the supply and demand sides of workforce skills.

Do you need to make meaningful change to improve products, services, processes, or organizational effectiveness and create new value for stakeholders? Whether your organization faces the challenges and opportunities of Integrated Supply Chain and Logistics Analytics, Performance-Based Logistics or Global Supply Chain and Logistics, you need a highly-skilled workforce for performance excellence and sustainability. Join us in an insightful discussion with Page Siplon, Executive Director of the Georgia Center of Innovation for Logistics as we explore various aspects of innovation including the supply and demand sides of workforce skills.

Let’s talk Analytics. This episode welcomes The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) in a discussion about the value of Analytics and the Certified Analytics Professional (CAP)®. INFORMS is the largest professional society in the world for professionals in the field of operations research (O.R.), management science, and analytics. As many organizations around the world launch and develop their Analytics efforts, this discussion brings insight and resources to the scientific process of transforming data into insight for making better decisions.

This “Power of STEM” episode examines emerging practices and challenges facing the STEM community. We focus on the actions that companies, international organizations, government agencies, communities, professionals, students and parents can take to seize the opportunities that translate into jobs and thriving careers. While 50% of jobs today require some degree of technological skill, ASTRA projects that 77% of jobs will require such skills by 2023. Of concern, less than 15% of U.S. college undergraduates are currently pursuing degrees in science or engineering. In comparison, more than 30% of Indian and 40% of Chinese college undergraduates are pursuing degrees in science or engineering. Given this economic outlook, STEM emerges into everyone’s business. Whether you are a company partnering or investing in STEM programs to advance your strategic goals, a community-based organization offering opportunities to attract students and workers to enroll in programs or apply for competitive grants and scholarships, policy makers providing legislation that is inclusive of people in all communities, a student exploring areas of study and employment or parents investing in your child’s future, STEM initiatives and programs affects all of us. Join the call to see how you can get involved in shaping current and future employment opportunities.

Transportation may be a main artery to economic growth and sustainability. As segments of the transportation industry face daunting demands for workforce skills, organizations are challenged to design workable solutions to attract, retain and advance women. Join us in this insightful discussion with Marsha Ferranto, President of WTS International. Marsha shares the vision of WTS International to provide the public and private sector with the research they need to advance women in transportation, working with companies demonstrating best practices. WTS International aim is to keep the conversation going in an industry filled with opportunities and career choices. Remember to share this episode to continue the conversation toward actionable solutions.

As part of a promoting excellence series, this episode reveals the first-ever ASQ Global State of Quality Research—Discoveries 2013. ASQ states, “This unprecedented worldwide research has taken nearly a year and a half to complete, with more than 2,000 survey responses from organizations in more than 22 countries.” Join us as we find out what triggered this undertaking and plans to build from this baseline. We discuss how the research addresses the “what” questions, i.e., core main themes, associated key findings, and statistically significant factors that affect quality practices within these themes. The Discoveries 2013 report will start the journey to answer the “why” questions this year, providing the quality discipline with real-world data to help shape the focus of our work to move our own organizations forward—as well as the world.

This “Power of STEM” episode examines emerging practices and challenges facing the STEM community. We focus on the actions that companies, international organizations, government agencies, communities, professionals, students and parents can take to seize the opportunities that translate into jobs and thriving careers. While 50% of jobs today require some degree of technological skill, ASTRA projects that 77% of jobs will require such skills by 2023. Of concern, less than 15% of U.S. college undergraduates are currently pursuing degrees in science or engineering. In comparison, more than 30% of Indian and 40% of Chinese college undergraduates are pursuing degrees in science or engineering. Given this economic outlook, STEM emerges into everyone’s business. Whether you are a company partnering or investing in STEM programs to advance your strategic goals, a community-based organization offering opportunities to attract students and workers to enroll in programs or apply for competitive grants and scholarships, policy makers providing legislation that is inclusive of people in all communities, a student exploring areas of study and employment or parents investing in your child’s future, STEM initiatives and programs affects all of us. Join the call to see how you can get involved in shaping current and future employment opportunities.

An emergence of mental health issues is gaining the attention of companies around the world. Mental health issues affects individual wellness and impacts business productivity and profitability therefore, this episode focuses on the business impact of mental health issues emerging in business environments. Since nations face unprecedented economic turbulence, the goal of this episode is to elevate the awareness and generate discussion of a sometimes stigmatized topic. Guest Shekhar Sexena, MD, Director, Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse World Health Organization (WHO), Geneva Switzerland distinguishes mental health and mental disorder, discusses the impact to business and economies and offers practical ways to ensure a healthy work environment. Guest Louise Chénier, Researcher, The Conference Board of Canada and Network Manager for the Council on Workplace Health and Wellness shares concrete examples and tools companies and managers may consider to build and sustain mentally healthy workplaces. Our listening audience is encouraged to share this insightful episode with senior leaders, human resource departments, health care providers, family members and friends.

An emergence of mental health issues is gaining the attention of companies around the world. Mental health issues affects individual wellness and impacts business productivity and profitability therefore, this episode focuses on the business impact of mental health issues emerging in business environments. Since nations face unprecedented economic turbulence, the goal of this episode is to elevate the awareness and generate discussion of a sometimes stigmatized topic. Guest Shekhar Sexena, MD, Director, Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse World Health Organization (WHO), Geneva Switzerland distinguishes mental health and mental disorder, discusses the impact to business and economies and offers practical ways to ensure a healthy work environment. Guest Louise Chénier, Researcher, The Conference Board of Canada and Network Manager for the Council on Workplace Health and Wellness shares concrete examples and tools companies and managers may consider to build and sustain mentally healthy workplaces. Our listening audience is encouraged to share this insightful episode with senior leaders, human resource departments, health care providers, family members and friends.

Part II Promoting STEM Career Options for Girls looks at how collaboration elevates awareness and career options. The sky is the limit if you have access to learning resources, family and community support, the courage to compete, and a commitment to excellence. Our Guest Karen A. Peterson, M.Ed is the Principle Investigator for the National Girls Collaborative Project which seeks to maximize access to shared resources within projects and with public and private sector organizations and institutions interested in expanding girls’ participation in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM).

In Part I Promoting STEM Career Options for Girls, we examine what attracts girls to science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) programs and what is needed to keep girls interested in STEM as a career option. As public and private organizations collaborate to develop the skills needed to fill jobs, let’s ensure that the hands-on projects and the cool stuff girls are learning translates into equal-paying jobs and productive career options. Join our guests, an exemplar of private-public partnership, Techbridge Girls and Chevron in an insight discussion focused on promoting STEM career options for girls.