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Corporate Leaders Host Out-of-School-Youth Program Managers
Gensler, the world's largest architecture and design business, Cisco, the world's leading network hardware producer, and the National Foundation for Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE) opened their doors to managers of out-of-school youth programs through an innovative Leadership Training Institute developed by the New York Citywide School to Work Alliance in cooperation with the New York City Department of Employment.
The workplace of the 21st Century demands strong basic academic skills, sophisticated workplace competencies and the ability to continue to learn and grow with the changing times. Program directors and professional practitioners involved in training out-of-school youth must develop and implement effective programmatic practices that will enable their participants to meet the new workplace demands. In order to strengthen their capacity to meet these programmatic and management challenges, the New York Citywide School to Work Alliance and our partners developed The Leadership Institute for Workplace Success in the 21st Century, a three-day professional development institute that focused on leadership development and effective program design and implementation.
By arranging for leading businesses and an entrepreneurial development program to host the Institute, program managers could observe, discuss and experience the integration of current business practices in teaming, communication, business planning, and program and instructional strategies. Each session highlighted the alignment of the activities with the U.S. Department of Labor's SCANS standards. Throughout the three days the facilitators also made strong connections between what participants were observing and experiencing and the instructional strategies and methods that could be used in their own programs to foster the development of appropriate workplace competencies in their out of school youth participants.
Gensler—Architecture, Design & Planning Worldwide, hosted Day One at their Rockefeller Center offices where Gensler staff facilitated discussions and group activities on leadership, teaming and communication. NFTE staff facilitated discussions and activities on communications, the free enterprise system, effective teaching strategies and developing engaging activities at their Wall Street offices on Day Two. The Final Day, hosted by Cisco, was divided into two sessions. The first provided a look at a high technology company with e-learning and a paperless environment where all operational communications and processing, from requesting vacation days to submitting expenses, is handled online. The final session was facilitated by Youth Workforce Development Specialist, Sundra Franklin and Youth Development Specialist, David Owen. The group explored the National Youth Employment Coalition's Promising and Effective Practices self-assessment tool and discussed program design, implementation and evaluation in the context of all the information and experiences of the first two sessions. Follow-up activities to the Institute are planned for the fall of 2002.
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