Racine County releases a strategy

Racine County, WI released its workforce development strategy today. The event is notable for a few reasons. 

• First, the report is remarkably free of jargon. Too often workforce development strategies are technical documents that fail to move people to action. They focus on compiling statistics, not telling a story. The Racine report is different. It focuses on a story. 
  
• Second, the Racine report does a good job of outlining a Strategic Outcome. How will Racine County be different? We have a sense of a clearer direction than most stregies...which depend too much on trite vision statements. 
  
• Third, the report organizes a relatively small set of high level metrics. Metrics are important for two reasons. First, they can help us understand what's working. In other words, they are a tool of learning. Equally important, metrics keep our conversations focused over a sustained period of time. 
  
• Finally, the folks in Racine rolled out their plan with a video. In other words, they focused on telling their story not just in print, but also on the web. 

You can read more about the Racine County strategy from this article. And here's another .

You can download a copy of the report here. 

View the video here.