If you have followed the progress of SA Ready to Work workforce development initiative, you may have seen that SA WORX secured a contract with the City of San Antonio to help with implementation. They were awarded the contract in part because of their adoption of the US Chamber’s Talent Pipeline Management (TPM) framework and methodology.
For this reason, your San Antonio Chamber of Commerce invited our friends at the US Chamber of Commerce to present during our recent SA to DC trip. We were joined by Jaimie Francis, Vice President of Policy & Programs at the US Chamber’s Center for Education & Workforce Development. She gave the group a brief overview of TPM and provided some examples of success.
The TPM approach utilizes lessons learned from innovations in supply chain management and encourages employers to play a leadership role as “end-customers” of education and workforce partnerships. From there, employers can proactively organize and manage talent supply chain partnerships with measures and incentives tied to performance. Benefits from using talent pipeline management practices are numerous: a reduced skills gap and a better-prepared workforce for employers, improved partnerships and job placement outcomes for education and workforce partners, increased transparency and opportunity for students and workers, and higher returns on education and workforce investments for policymakers.