STRATEGIC DIRECTION FOR

THE KALAMAZOO-ST. JOSEPH CAREER DEVELOPMENT SYSTEM

The Kalamazoo-St. Joseph Career Development System offers the following goals and strategies as products of its community-based strategic planning process: (1/2001)

 

STRATEGIC GOALS:

  1. Enhance workplace readiness skills.
  2. Improve employment and income circumstances for Workforce Development program participants.
  3. Strengthen incumbent worker skills.

 

LONG-TERM STRATEGIES:

  1. We will promote and implement valid approaches to objectively assess and thoughtfully advance workplace readiness.
  2. We will refine and expand programs and services for children, youth, and adults designed to positively influence the development of productive workplace readiness skills.
  3. We will design and implement intensified job placement services focused on yielding optimum wages and benefits for Michigan Works! clients.
  4. We will support and expand effective employer-driven, customized training activities.
  5. We will seek avenues to augment and intensify effective supportive services for those who struggle to sustain viable employment.

 

 

DISTINCTIONS:

STRATEGIC PLANNING: a proactive means of positioning an organization (or system) to achieve and maintain excellence in an environment of dramatic trends and transitions.

STRATEGIC GOALS: statements defining the desired, measurable outcomes resulting from an organization's efforts.

STRATEGIES: significant, multi-year, general efforts toward which an organization (is or) will be dedicating resources in order to achieve its strategic goals.