"STAR" Teams Leading Florida Forward

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"STAR" Teams - Leading Florida Forward
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What's STAR?

• Stimulus
• Tracking
• And
• Response

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GOVERNORS WORKFORCE INVESTMENT BOARD
WFI Board of Directors governance and oversight
of all programs, initiatives except marked with

• Intensive work readiness
• FSET, work activities
• Welfare to work programs
• TANF
• Unemployment services

• One Stop services (core)
• CHOICE Academies
• Industry certifications, TOL
• Ready to Work
• ITA (Indiv. Training Accounts)

Science and engineering leadership ? Research
and development programs ? World-class scholars
? Centers of Excellence ?
Prime mover
Prime mover


VOICE OF BUSINESS

• Early learning, VPK
• Entry level skills development
• Targeted grant programs

Banner Centers ? Quick response training ?
Incumbent worker training ?
AGENCY-TO-AGENCY
AWI
WFI
Joint Venture
NEED DRIVEN
DEMAND DRIVEN
NEED DRIVEN
DEMAND DRIVEN
W O R K F O R C E C O N
T I N U U M
Employ Florida Marketplace
Workforce readiness and access to services -
Special populations, e.g. ex-offender, youth,
homeless - Welfare transition and cash
assistance - Unskilled labor access and support
Workforce development to accelerate pipeline -
Up-skilling, re-skilling and redeployment -
Lifelong learning, professional development -
Value-added business services
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Stimulus Tracking And Response
Accountability Reporting

• Performance Reporting
• Monitoring Oversight

Workforce Readiness
Workforce Development

• Youth
• Welfare Transition, TANF

• Business Services, e.g. tax, insurance
• Re-employment (and re-deployment)

Workforce Support
Allied Programs

• Financial
• Legislative, state and Federal
• Business outreach
• Communications
• Technology Systems

• Trade Adjustment Act (Trade, TAA)
• FSET/SNAP

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National guiding principles

• Transparency and Accountability.
• Expedited and effective use of funds
• Emphasis on training and service delivery
  strategies
• Emphasis on services for hard-to-serve
  populations and needs-related payments

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U.S. Department of Labor and the public workforce
investment

• 1,250,000,000 for grants to the States for
  dislocated worker employment and training
  activities
• 1,200,000,000 for grants to the States for youth
  activities, including summer employment for
  youth
• 400,000,000 for Wagner-Peyser activities
  250,000,000 of those funds are to support
  reemployment services for unemployment insurance
  claimants
• 500,000,000 for grants to the States for adult
  employment and training activities

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U.S. Department of Labor and the public workforce
investment

• 750,000,000 for a program of competitive grants
  for worker training and placement in high growth
  and emerging industry sectors,
• 200,000,000 for the dislocated worker assistance
  national reserve
• 50,000,000 for YouthBuild activities

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Florida's slice of the ARRA stimulus "pie"

• Dislocated worker 80.5 Million
• WIA youth 42.8 Million
• Wagner-Peyser
• WIA adult 19.4 Million
• Florida WIA funds (total, stimulus) 142.8
  Million

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Why teams?

• Structure for subject matter expert (SME) and
  state workforce system support
• Ensure partners and stakeholders are "looped in"
  on key decisions and program implementation
• "Block and tackle" unprecedented resources,
  oversight and responsibility for Florida's
  workforce

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Strategic STAR teams

• 1. AR Accountability Reporting
• 2. WR Workforce Readiness
• 3. WD Workforce Development
• 4. WS Workforce Support
• 5. AP Allied Programs

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Tactical STAR teams

• AR - Accountability
• Performance Reporting
• Monitoring Oversight
• WR - Readiness
• Youth
• Welfare Transition, TANF
• WD - Development
• Business Services, e.g. tax, insurance
• Re-employment (and re-deployment)
• WS - Support
• Financial
• Legislative, state and Federal
• Business outreach
• Communications
• Technology and systems

• AP - Programs
• Trade Adjustment Act (Trade, TAA)
• FSET

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What will the teams need?

• Agility - keep the teams small
• Purpose - each team needs to begin with a "kick
  off" meeting to accept their assigned area(s) of
  focus and goals
• Horizon - start with the end in mind, these teams
  will need a sense of what the finish line is and
  milestones to reach that point
• Authority - teams must have decision-making
  capability and clear channels for resolution
• Visibility - teams will need exective champions
  to ensure the work is supported and roadblocks
  are removed

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Team criteria and considerations

• Establish urgency, demanding performance
  standards, and direction
• Select members for skill and skill potential, not
  personality
• Pay particular attention to first meetings and
  actions
• Set and seize upon a few immediate
  performance-oriented tasks and goals
• Challenge the group regularly with fresh facts
  and information
• Exploit the power of positive feedback,
  recognition, and reward

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Stages of team development

• Forming - formalities are preserved and members
  are treated as strangers.
• Storming - members start to communicate their
  feelings but probably still view themselves as
  part of their parent department rather than part
  of the team. They attack others insular attitudes
  while guarding their own.
• Norming - people feel part of the team and
  realize that they can achieve work if they accept
  other viewpoints.
• Performing - the team works in an open and
  trusting atmosphere where flexibility is the key
  and hierarchy is of little importance.

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Tollgating

• Consistency and process for policy issues

FWDA
Workforce Readiness Council
WFI Board of Directors
One off or One Voice requests
Partners Council
Adhoc State level work Groups i.e. Performance
Incentives, Customer Sat.etc.
SME work groups
WFI Executive Committee
Regional work groups
Workforce Readiness Committee Richard Meik
Lois Scott
Youth Opportunities Committee Dehryl McCall
Holly Carson
Performance Committee Charles Williams
Tony Carter
Technology Committee Steve Urquhart
Technology Committee Steve Urquhart
Carlton Bassett
Other WF Board Committees