To narrow the skills gap while creating a template for employers, personnel professionals, governments and educators, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation’s Center for Education and Workforce recently launched a new workforce development curriculum.
Titled the Talent Pipeline Management (TPM) Academy, the initiative represents the culmination of more than a year of legwork involving over 70 chambers nationwide, and serves to provide a strategic set of guidelines for boosting workforce power, a U.S. Chamber release said.
Comprising six key strategies, the program encourages employer collaborative; demand-oriented planning; clear communication of qualification requirements; talent flow analysis; and documentation and ongoing improvement for talent supply chains.
“Collaborating with business organizations from across the country was critical to developing a robust TPM Academy curriculum that will help businesses from a variety of industries connect people to jobs and close the skills gap,” Cheryl Oldham, senior vice president of the U.S. Chamber Foundation’s Center for Education and Workforce, said in the release. “This curriculum sets the standard for what effective employer leadership looks like in today’s education and workforce programs. We look forward to seeing how communities use TPM Academy to achieve their goals.”
The program debuted at the recent “America Working Forward” event in Washington, D.C., and shared the spotlight with a keynote address by U.S. Secretary of Labor Alexander Acosta, who announced the appointment of U.S. Chamber President Thomas Donohue to the President’s Task Force on Apprenticeship Expansion.
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