2024 DMCA JOURNAL Final - Flipbook - Page 20
Garland Chamber of Commerce
Next Gen Leadership at Dallas College
Leaders in our region’s manufacturing sector know
best practices that offer an effective means for
昀椀rsthand how fast the industry is changing. Every
establishing these crucial connections. With over
day, companies are faced with many pressing
75 Next Gen Sector Partnerships active across
questions and issues: a quali昀椀ed workforce, the need
more than 18 states, businesses gather at a single
for increased staff retention, increasing costs, new
table to work with leaders in education, workforce
technologies, and improved internal operations. It is
development and economic development, to help
essential for manufacturers to work together with
create solutions to pressing issues with an agenda
community partners to navigate these new demands.
that is set, driven and prioritized by the industry
leaders themselves.
Industries, including manufacturing, are collaborating
around the country to create similar partnerships,
Our purpose is to use this model to bring together
and we must too, if we are to continue thriving. These
local and regional manufacturing leaders to address
partnerships are adopting the Next Generation (Next
our shared workforce and broader competitive
Gen) Sector Partnerships model, a set of established
needs, in collaboration with local and regional public
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