The Ozark Workforce Development Board Needs a Few Minutes of Your Time

DADCO Consulting Services, Inc. is partnering with the Ozark Region Workforce Development Board (ORWDB) to identify strategic actions to enhance the board's effectiveness in delivering critical workforce services throughout the region. Key activities include connecting employers with qualified job seekers, training and skill development, workforce planning and strategy, career counseling and job readiness, youth employment initiatives, and support for special populations.
As a key stakeholder, your insights are essential to this process. Please complete this brief questionnaire, which will take less than 15 minutes to complete. Your anonymous responses will provide valuable feedback to help shape future strategies and improve the quality and impact of services offered to the region's employers, employees, and job seekers.
Your participation is vital to ensuring the region's workforce development efforts align with the needs of businesses like yours. Please take a moment to share your thoughts and contribute to this important process. The ORWDB is critical in supporting a region’s economic growth and vitality by addressing workforce needs. The board’s activities focus on aligning local talent with employers' needs, ensuring that businesses have access to a skilled and competitive workforce.
Please Return this Survey no later than December 6, 2024.
Thank you in advance for your participation in this effort. If you have questions, please call David Dodd of DADCO Consulting at 1-318-525-5559, or email him at dadconsult@aol.com
Use the following 1 to 5 scale, with 1 indicating very low effectiveness or knowledge of those services and 5 indicating very high. Please rate the relative effectiveness of the following services ORWDB has provided.

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* 1. Providing employment services to your business or for people you are educating or training for employment

Recruiting or providing qualified candidates or meeting the training needs of your business

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* 2. How effective has ORWDB been in providing on-the-job employment training for your business or to individuals you are training for employment?

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* 3. How effective has ORWDB been in conducting outreach to inform and build awareness of ORWDB employment, training, and other services?

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* 4. How effective has the ORWDB Employment Centers been in serving your needs as an employer or your employees?

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* 5. How knowledgeable are you about the Board’s duties, responsibilities, and authority in delivering workforce-related information and services

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* 6. How effective has ORWDB been in keeping the region’s workforce prepared through education and skill development programs?

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* 7. How effective has ORWDB been in expanding awareness of education and training options available to businesses and current or potential employees?

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* 8. Please list and rank, using the same one to five scale, any additional activities similar to those listed in questions one to seven that are or could be important to the future of employees and employers of the Ozark Region. These can be challenges or opportunities, short or long-term.

 
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* 9. Various jobs create different impacts on communities. Using the same 1 to 5 scale, with 1 being the least important, please rank the following types of jobs according to how important they are to the Ozark Region.

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Commercial
Industrial
Technology
Tourism
Retail

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* 10. Communities often target recruitment of new, and growth of existing, industry sectors due to the competitive advantages the community can offer those types of industries. Which sectors, such as electronic computer manufacturing, biotechnology, precision machining, or software development for example, should ORWDB target in providing training, education, and placement services?

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* 11. Imagine that it’s 2029 -- five years from now -- and that you are being interviewed by a Wall Street Journal reporter. They are writing a story about ORWDB’s success in developing a world-class workforce for the region, and they requested your help in writing a lead paragraph. What are the two or three most important facts they should include, as you imagine the vision of the Ozark region’s development and progress over the next five years? What top things should ORWDB have accomplished in that time period? Please write your vision in the box below:

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* 12. Please tell us a little about yourself. Please check all that apply:

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* 13. How many years have you lived in southwest Missouri?

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* 14. In which ORWDB County are you located?

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* 15. Please list any other issues or concerns you feel are important as we enter the workforce development planning process together—these issues can cover any subject, including elaboration on answers to above questions.

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* 16. Thank You very much for your time and effort. Your input, along with that of other Ozark Region leaders, will guide the development and prioritization of actions for ORWDB to support its workforce development effort for years to come.

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