Workforce Symposium 2024
May 7, 2024 • Horticultural Hall, Lake Geneva
Unlock Your Competitive Edge: Harness Local Resources for Innovative Training in Talent Attraction and Retention!
It's crucial to strategically reinvest in your business to maintain competitiveness in constantly evolving markets. Technology and equipment upgrades, infrastructure maintenance, and marketing programs tend to take precedence, but in the quest to attract talent, adaptability and creative thinking have emerged as indispensable traits for businesses. We'll discuss why failing to reinvest in your current workforce and offer development opportunities for prospective employees isn't an option.
Presentations & Other Resources
- Presentation: Michaelene Healy, Superior Crane
- WI Job Board
- WCEDA's
Career-Connected Learning Model
- WCEDA's Educational Opportunities
- Spanish for Business
- Fundamentals of Supervision
- Top Level Leadership
- Bring Your "A" Game
- Higher Expectations of Racine County
- Event "Big Papers"
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Agenda
7:30 am - Networking & Continental Breakfast
8:00 - 10:30 am
- Welcome
- Small Group Discussions
- Panel Discussion 1, Looking at Other Groups
- Featured Speaker, One Company’s Unique Solution
- Break
- Panel Discussion 2, Local Solution
- Closing
Featured Speaker
Michaelene Healy
Lead Instructor/Director, SCC-University
Superior Crane Corp
SCC-University (SCC-U), sponsored by Superior Crane Corporation, is a community outreach, paid, training program for students at least 16 years and older, held for approximately 16 weeks during the summer. The 2-year program offers hands-on training to the following trades: Welding, Machining, Service/Maintenance Repair, Electrical, Engineering and a solid foundation to Life and Financial skills.
The two-year program provides students with real-life exposure to a growing, family-owned manufacturing company that feels employees are their most valuable asset. This exposure allows students to help select a career that meets their interests, while getting paid. Upon completion of the first year, SCC makes recommendations to each student on how they can achieve their career goals and the pathways best suited to each student.
Panel Speakers
Elizabeth Oplatka
Leadership and Supervision
Business and Workforce Solutions
Gateway Technical College
Joel Espinoza
Language and Essential Skills Education
Business and Workforce Solutions
Walworth County Economic Development Alliance
Judy Newcomer
Walworth County Business Services Representative
Southeastern Wisconsin Workforce Development Board
JNewcomer@dwfs.us
Chris Trottier
Director of School to Work Opportunities
Elkhorn Area School District
Lisa Pavett
Program Manager, Inspire Walworth County & Made in Walworth County
Walworth County Economic Development Alliance
Elizabeth Erickson
Co-Executive Director
Higher Expectations for Racine County
elizabeth.erickson@career2cradle.org
Susan Smolarek
Business Services