Action Team Kickoff

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Action Team Kickoff

• A Department of Labor WIRED Initiative (Workforce
  Innovation in Regional Economic Development)

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What are the MNREM Action Teams?

• A grassroots effort/network from throughout the
  region to
• Assist and inform MNREM Board of opportunities
  and gaps
• Identify and grow leadership
• Raise awareness of MNREM organization and efforts
• Three Action Teams to support MNREMs three
  primary goals

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Talent Development

• Develop collaborative initiatives to cultivate
  and grow the regions talent pool to support the
  emerging renewable energy/agri-bioscience
  industry and supporting industry sectors

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Regional Leadership and Identity

• Build a regional leadership network to promote
  and support the emerging industries that are the
  future of the region, and build a long-term
  funding strategy to sustain innovation and
  workforce competitiveness

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Entrepreneurship/Innovation/Business Growth

• Build and promote entrepreneurship and innovation
  in the targeted industries as a foundation of our
  regional economy

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Potential roles of Action Teams

• Build a network across the region for
  communication and sharing of projects, ideas, and
  success
• Serve as experts on particular issues
• Respond to questions and ideas from Board and
  staff
• Take on specialized projects or research for the
  region

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Potential roles of Action Teams (continued)

• Propose areas of focus to the Board for future
  RFP rounds
• Provide input on process improvement
• For example, suggestions on how to improve RFP
  process
• Help engage partners, especially industry
  partners
• What else?

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Entrepreneurship/Innovation/Business Growth
Action Team

• Focus on opportunities to support
• Business leaders
• Entrepreneurs
• Innovators
• Scientists and Researchers
• Through the identification of support, training,
  collaboration and partnering of and with the
  business community

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Entrepreneurship/Innovation/Business Growth
Action Team (continued)

• Provide input on current training and design of
  new approaches to help individuals and businesses
  define needs
• Build and share success models to achieve growth,
  and improve access to capital and resources that
  take businesses to the next level and grow
  leadership

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How can this Action Team provide value to your
organization and throughout the region?
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Talent Development Action Team

• Focus on how to build the best future talent for
  the region through providing qualitative input
  into the identification of
• Current skill gaps
• Future needs of business and industry
• Gaps in training and education
• Input will be critical to supplementing the
  quantitative data that is collected through the
  asset-mapping process

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How can this Action Team provide value to your
organization and throughout the region?
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Regional Leadership and Identity Action Team

• Focus on stages of building the identity of the
  Renewable Energy Marketplace to
• Support Board, members, and business
• Influence policy and educate policy makers,
  promote attributes of the region and build a
  broad network to support efforts
• Assist in the development of a comprehensive
  marketing plan for the organization and region

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How can this Action Team provide value to your
organization and throughout the region?
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First Action Items

• Identify Team Chair
• Suggest possible focus areas for next round of
  RFPs
• By mid-March
• Determine communication methods
• Website?
• ITV?
• Other?

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Thank you for your time!
Questions?

• www.mnrem.org