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Building a Vibrant Workforce Through Skills Development | Amanda Winters
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Organizations across industries and U.S. states are facing challenges in finding skilled workers. In this episode of The Skill Shift, guest Amanda Winters, program director at the National Governors Association Center for Best Practices, shares how her organization is working on projects that focus on building talent pipelines, economic growth and skills-based hiring.
Amanda highlights the importance of data to make evidence-informed decisions and its role in driving policy and program development, including micro-credentials. She also shares her passion for learning employment records and how they can be used to showcase skills and credentials for people from all walks of life.
Tune into this episode of The Skill Shift to discover how building a vibrant workforce is about giving people the skills to continue to learn, grow and be able to adapt to a changing world of work.
Resources we talked about in this episode:
6:37 – Enabling Learning for Life: New Realities for Work and Education, D2L
7:49 - Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce
9:27 – Creating Accessible Pathways Between Workers and Open Jobs | Chike Aguh, The Skill Shift
16:01 – Why the ROI of Corporate Learning is Hard to Measure—And What To Do About It, The Skill Shift
23:19 – SkillsFWD
31:33 – Robert McGough, Chief Data Officer
39:29 - Opportunity@Work
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