Lifelong Learning Education Strategies                                                    November 2008

Skills Training and Lifelong Learning

1. Provide skills training required to increase employee and management productivity.
   • Meet the needs of our employers and employees that must complete in a global business market for high paying jobs.
   • Employers considering relocation, retention or expansion of high paying jobs in Shawnee Countyneed competitive skills training for their new employees.
   • Expand and improve Washburn Tech and collaboration with other schools to ensure a qualified, well educated workforce that meets specific trade skills needed by employers and eliminates the skilled workforce gap.
2. Provide mentoring for young people after high school and adults with disabilities.
3. Encourage employers to provide incentives for employee workforce training and education.
4. Provide opportunities to improve entrepreneurial skills and learn how to create jobs beginning in elementary school.