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AWC Pre-Conference CML Workshops
Wednesday, June 13
9 – 11:30 am
AWC pre-conference workshops require a separate registration fee ($40 member/$80 non-member). Please select only one session. Explore issues in more depth and earn 5 CML credits by attending a session.
Do you have businesses in your region
with competitive advantages that can
benefit from new partnerships and
communication?
Are you looking for more common
ground and less conflict in your region?
Are you ready for new opportunities
for specialized education and workforce
training programs that could support
business expansion?
Would new data for describing
industrial activities help you with
planning for funding requests for land
use developments, transportation
decisions and infrastructure
investments?
If you answered yes to any of the
above, you’re ready to explore clusters.
In this session, you’ll learn new ways
to cost-effectively deliver
comprehensive strategies to help your
businesses and work force become more
successful.
- Examine ways you can integrate
regional cluster-based development
into existing local economic
development strategies.
- Define the keys steps local
leaders can take to bring the
collaborative cluster approach to
their regions.
- Organize business activity data
into a strategic planning tool for
quick decision-making.
Speaker: Alec Hansen, President,
Economic Competitiveness Group
Engaging your youth in leadership
activities or helping them develop
entrepreneurial skills paves the way for
a sustainable community. Community
leaders who work together with local
youth can successfully shape strategies
that address mutual priorities, and in
the process, revitalize communities.
This session shows you how to create
a supportive environment where
entrepreneurial youth can access
practical tools and specific strategies.
- Understand youth perspectives
and practical ways to successfully
engage with entrepreneurial young
people.
- Appreciate how your community's
heritage can bring generations
together to reawaken an
entrepreneurial growth environment.
- Measure your community's
capacity for engaging young people,
mapping resources and developing a
road map to your goals.
- Learn how to create a Youth
Engagement System(c) in your
community.
- Hear case studies from
successful youth entrepreneurship
initiatives around the country.
Speaker: Craig Schroeder, Senior
Associate, RUPRI Center for Rural
Entrepreneurship
Tax payers want accountability, and
governments across the nation are
responding to the outcry with a slew of
performance measures. But measuring
performance is not the silver bullet to
accountability. Citizens are the
ultimate judges of government
performance.
Yet citizens do not typically measure
government performance in the same way
that government measures itself. This
disconnect can lead to a vicious circle
of mutual distrust and diminished
resources.
The first step towards building
accountability is converting your
taxpayers into citizens. Ask the
question – what are the “vital signs”
that are meaningful to both the citizens
and to government.
And organizations must go beyond
measuring performance. They must manage
and audit their performance so they can
report back to their citizenry on how
well they are doing, or not doing.
This session covers the very basics
of this citizen-driven performance
organization, including:
- How to identify your communities
performance “vital signs.”
- Effective communication
strategies for talking with citizens
about performance – or lack thereof.
- Grade your organization’s
qualifications as a citizen-driven
performance organization.
Speakers: Faith Trimble, FLT
Consulting & Stewart Elway, Elway
Research, Inc.
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