Best Practices

Florida Workforce Development Association – Best Practice Seminars

The Florida Workforce Development Association (FWDA) hosts a best practice seminar at each board meeting. Regional Workforce Boards and other entities come together to share promising and innovative ideas to promote partnership and excellence.

• Help for Entrepreneurs in Your Community
• Growing Your Business Through Innovative Data Management
• Five Steps to Rapid Employment
• Phoenix Rising - A Community Project for Neighborhood Revitalization and Employment
• Entrepreneurship Best Practices
• Thinking Outside the Recruitment Box: In the Spotlight
• Welfare Transition Program Best Practices by WorkNet Pinellas
• Race to Place by PolkWorks'
  • PolkWorks' Employer Commitment Agreement
  • PolkWorks' Partner Commitment Agreement

Reemployment Services Best Practices

Learn about successful program implementation in the following Workforce regions.

• Workforce Escarosa
• Workforce Central Florida
• Brevard Workforce
• Heartland Workforce
• Workforce Solutions
• Five Steps to Rapid Employment
• Reemployment Assistance Processes/Work Search Records
  • JobsPlus
  • Chipola Regional Workforce Development Board
  • WorkSource
  • Center for Business Excellence
  • Career Central

2011 Workforce Summit Best Practices

Employers

• Business Engagement Means Professional Development
• Business Services:  What is Your Team's Value Proposition?
• Entrepreneurs and Small Business Start Ups – Assistance for Non-traditional Customers
• Fair Trade:  An Approach to Effective Business Services
• Serving Employers will Lead to Success

Jobseekers

• Building Bridges:  Establishing Relationships with Customers Begins Day One
• Calculating Worksite Hours for Welfare Transition Customers
• Effective Strategies to Serve the Unemployed:  Hot Solutions For Cold Cases
• Entrepreneurship Training Assistance:  “Encouraging Self-Employment”
• Follow the Leader – Food Stamp Employment and Training (FSET) Best Practices
• How Do You Show Veterans’ Priority In Your Region?
• How to Use Social Media for Your Jobseekers and Your Organization
• I Think I Can, I Think I Can – How Attitudes Affect Altitude and Career Goal Obtainment
• Job Search Strategies and Curriculum for Customers Applying for Temporary Cash Assistance
• Life in Progress:  Developing Better Strategies to Work with Adolescents
• Partnering with the Florida Farmworker Jobs and Education Program to Enhance Service Delivery to Migrant and Seasonal Farmworkers (MSFWs)
• Psychology of the Unemployed:  Mindset of the Long-Term Job Seeker
• The “Difficult Customer”:  Simple Strategies for Working Effectively with Challenging Customers
• The Good, the Bad, and the 10-Pagers:  How to Make Any Resume Better
• Translating Transferable Skills
• Under Construction:  Developing Employability Plans that Work!
• Workforce Strategies to Engage Food Stamp Employment and Training (FSET) Customers and Increase the FSET Entered Employment Rate

Labor Market Information

• All About Jobs:  Labor Market Information Program Overview
• Florida’s Supply/Demand Report
• Jobs in Demand and the Targeted Occupations Lists
• Labor Market Information Tools, or “I Didn’t Know That!”
• Shades of Green:  Growing Green Jobs for Florida

Miscellaneous

• Can U C the Forest through the Trees?
• Don’t Let the Energy Vampire Get You (.doc version)
• Empowerment Pilot Project – Discover Proven Strategies that Increase Participation and EMPOWER Domestic Violence Customers TODAY!
• Learn Your Communication Style to Get What You Want! (.doc version)
• Making Work Work:  How Compassion Fatigue Can Hinder The Workforce Professional
• Maximizing Your ROI Through Backroom Operations
• Optimum Bench Strength through Local Credentialing
• PRO-ACT, RE-ACT or OVER-REACT?
• Shuttle Retirement Ignites “Faith In the Future”
• Star Trek 2.0 – It’s finally here!
• Stress and Professional Burnout:  Signs, Symptoms, Causes and Coping
• Thinking Outside the Recruitment Box:  “In the Spotlight”

Performance

• Bridging the Gap and Maximizing Resources with Partner Programs for Positive Program Outcomes
• How to Achieve 50% Job Placement Rates:  5 Steps to Rapid Employment
• How to Create Performance Reports for Management and Staff
• Synced In! Building High Performance Case Management Teams
• The Four Major Reports Including the New Daily Placement Report

Superhero Academy - 2010 Workforce Summit Best Practices

Assessment Tools, Automated Work Registration, and Automated Real Time Caseload Review Tool

• Career Values and Life Values Questionnaire
• Customer Self-Assessment 
• Decision Clarification Activities
• Career Scope Assessment Presentation
• Initial Assessment Presentation
• Welfare Transition Review Tool

Assigning Activities Effectively

• Work Activities

Bridging the Gaps through Collaboration - S.T.E.M. and Healthcare Initiatives

• Bridging the Gaps through Collaboration
• Find Out What it Means When Healthcare Takes Off
• Science, Technology, Engineering, Math - Training for Emerging Careers (STEM TEC)

Developing Career Plans

• Guide for Developing Objective Assessment and Career Plan in EFM
• Developing Career Plans 
• Objective Assessments and Career Plans
• WIA Youth Program Individual Service Strategies (ISS)
• mySkills my Future Transferability Tool
• Using Social Networking to Help Job Seekers

Creating Good Case Notes

• The Art of Writing Case Notes
• Creating Case Notes for TANF and WT  Case Notes for Wagner-Peyser
• Make a Note of It: How to Write Good Case Notes Every Time
• Delivering an Effective Work Experience Program
• Labor Market Infromation Tools for One-Stops

Optional Service Delivery Strategies

• Connecting Workers to Jobs: Mobile Access Points
• Optional Service Delivery Strategies
• Reaching the Business Community: Getting Ready for Recovery

Youth and Special Needs

• Serving DJJ and Foster Care Youth
• Serving Customers with Disabilities
• Welfare Transition Program: Serving the Medically Disabled

Serving Special Populations

• Bridging the Gap for Veteran Employment
• Retooling and Refueling
• Dislocated and Discouraged: What one WDB is Doing to Support its Professional Unemployed Workers

Other Helpful Tips

• The Good, the Bad, and the 10-Pagers: How to Make any Resume Better
• The Time of Your Life: Unlocking the secrets for Managing Your Time and Your Life
• Participation Rates Basics
• Understanding UI_screens, Codes, Benefits
• De-escalating Anger and Frustration