• The establishment and maintenance of Local Employment Co-ordination (LEC) groups which will be considered to be your local ‘powerhouse’ of effective action on employment issues.
• Improved stakeholder involvement in your planning, resourcing and monitoring processes.
• Key local people, and organisations becoming better informed and wiser about employment issues.
• The creation of a high trust and supportive environment in which groups can brainstorm ideas and discuss options from different points of view.
• The enhancement of work practices, information flows and communications between participating groups.
• A decrease in "holding back", "patch protection", or "power games" within the participating groups.
• The creation of joint-ventures between local organisations, which capitalise on opportunities for service improvements, client access and job creation possibilities.
• A reduction in the wastage of public resources available for employment action.
• A monitoring and accountability process for local employment action.
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Establish or maintain Local Employment Co-ordination (LEC) groups in your region. |
- Evaluate the variety of groups that do exist now and build upon the experience and ‘best practice’ they have developed in recent years.
- Create and maintain a strategic plan for collaborative action.
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Attract the most effective local participation in the LEC process. |
- Define a preferred list of key players.
- Obtain commitment from the senior management of key participating organisations.
- Ensure that a commitment to the LEC process is expressed in organisation’s business plans.
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Create and maintain a local employment profile for your region. |
- Develop an employment profile through a public consultation and research process.
- Make the profile available to the general public through your internet website.
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Develop a strategy to promote awareness of the local services that are available now. |
- Create and maintain up-to-date agency profiles, and joint-agency information packs.
- Encourage exchange visits between participating groups.
- Develop "roadshows" which can take this information to the people in your region, or create a database of co-ordinated services that can be accessed through your internet website.
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Develop a strategy to distribute information on employment-related issues. |
- Distribute labour market information to LEC group members.
- Facilitate sector group and business forums.
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Reduce the wastage of local resources for employment action. |
- Take an independent audit of the government resources coming into your region to support employment action.
- Share information frankly on what worked and what didn’t.
- Develop and promote "best practice" strategies.
- Take leadership in inter-agency business planning.
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Broker joint-ventures between the LEC group members. |
- Draw on the "best practice" examples of joint-ventures that have happened in similar groups around New Zealand.
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"Walk the talk" in being a role model of co-ordination, collaboration and co-operation. |
- Create a high-trust environment within your LEC groups that is catalytic and motivating.
- Provide or support professional training in the skills of facilitation and co-operative action.
- Recruit co-ordinators with the appropriate skills for the job.
- Create a buddy-system between LEC co-ordinators which can provide support, coaching and mentoring in developing these skills.
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