Attracting Talent
1. Changing Perceptions: The Image of the Healthcare Industry
2. Informed Choices: Providing Knowledge of Career Options and Educational Resources in Healthcare
3. Making the Fit: Preparing and Placing Talent
 
Developing Talent
4. Building for Growth: Encouraging and Supporting Skill Development Career Ladders in the Workplace
5. Continuum of Care: Collaboration Among Employers and Training Providers
 
Retaining Talent
6. Orientation 101: Educating While Developing Understanding and Respect Among Staff
7. Redefining the Workplace: A New Place to Build Community
 
Breakout Session #1: Changing Perceptions: The Image of the Healthcare Industry
As a society, we rely upon a healthcare system to cure our ailments and maintain health and wellness.
Many healthcare professionals state that this doctrine of helping and healing--among other things--is what attracted them to the healthcare profession. Today, as the industry faces a workforce shortage, attracting new talent to adopt this same calling is a challenge.
This breakout session addressed the need to promote the career opportunities in the healthcare industry and the need to increase the image awareness of health professions in the labor market.
Session #1 Presentation
Session #1 Issues and Ideas
Session #1 Notes
Facilitator: Reid Dulberger, Executive Vice President, Youngstown-Warren Regional Chamber
Presenter: Andy Rind, Program Manager, Health Careers Futures
Scribe: Diane Burk, Kent State University-East Liverpool
Breakout Session #2: Informed Choices: Providing Knowledge of Career Options and Educational Resources in Healthcare
Why are relatively few students and current workers entering the healthcare industry, and what can be done to attract a more inclusive workforce?
With a burgeoning demand for skilled workers, clearly the healthcare industry needs to develop effective, proactive outreach strategies or approaches to promote the knowledge of career options and resources for training and advancement.
This breakout session addressed the resources available to workers, employers, and educators in order to best prepare the workforce for careers in healthcare.
Session #2 Issues and Ideas
Director: Harry Christman, Director of Workforce Development, Youngstown - Warren Regional Chamber
Facilitator: Vicki L. Thompson, HRD Coordinator, HRD Coordinator
Presenter: Melissa DeLisio, Assistant Director, Ohio Department of Job & Family Services
Scribe: Sandy DeSantis, Ohio Rehabilitation Services Commission
Breakout Session #3: Making the Fit: Preparing and Placing Talent
As healthcare continues to compete with other industries for a smaller pool of potential workers, it will become increasingly important that the skilled workers who pursue healthcare careers are well prepared for the demands of the healthcare workplace
and--most importantly--properly placed in a career track that allows for personal growth.
Often, however, this ideal is not realized and emerging students enter the healthcare career track only to realize that it does not fit their interest or ability.
This breakout session explored ways in which educators and parents can better assist students in choosing a healthcare career and how employers can actively engage in the preparation and mentorship process.
Session #3 Issues and Ideas
Session #3 Notes
Director: Eileen Dray-Bardon, Columbiana County Dept. of Job & Family Services
Facilitator: Robert Johnson, Workforce Development Administrator, Ohio Board of Regents
Presenter: Matthew C. Stencil, Director, EnterpriseOhio Network's SkillsMAX Resource Center
Presenter: Kelly Wallace, Director-Adult Workforce Development, Licking County JVS
Scribe: Sandy Stephan, YSU Metro College
Breakout Session #4: Building for Growth: Encouraging and Supporting Skill Development Career Ladders in the Workplace
How is it possible to ensure that the current healthcare workforce and employers stay abreast of the skills and competencies needed to address the constant changes in medicine and technology?
The promotion of career opportunities and flexible programs for skill advancement will prepare the healthcare workforce to address this high-skilled healthcare environment.
This breakout session explored readily available strategies for employers to become engaged in encouraging a culture of life-long learning, the value of investing in the workforce, and development of a supportive environment for learning within the workplace.
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#4 Presentation
Session #4 Issues and Ideas
Session #4 Notes
Director: Bob Faulkner, Youngstown Warren Regional Chamber
Facilitator: Ann Fitzgerald, Director, Leadership Development and Career Resource Center, Humility of Mary Health Partners
Presenter: Phyllis Snyder, Regional Vice President, Council for Adult and Experiential Learning
Scribe: Tom Mahoney, Trumbull County Department of Job & Family Services
Breakout Session #5: Continuum of Care: Collaboration Among Employers and Training Providers
What are the key elements that must be addressed for the region to obtain employer-desired skill standards?
To establish our region as a leader in healthcare, it is essential to provide emerging workers with the tools necessary to succeed.
What are these skills? Do schools have the same vision as employers?
What should the region do about ensuring alignment with skill demands?
This breakout session explored the benefits of developing collaborative partnerships between employers and training providers and explained the growing need for more partnership to prepare workers with the skills needed for success in the industry.
Session #5
Presentation
Session #5 Issues and Ideas
Session #5 Notes
Director: Ralph Bernazetti, Mahoning County Training Association
Facilitator: Paul Carlson, Senior Vice President of Human Resources, Forum Health
Facilitator: Dana Jarvis, Manager of Project Services, The Hill Group, Inc.
Presenter: Dr. Jeffrey Nolte, Dean, Kent State University-Salem
Presenter: Karen A. Kazel, Vice President of Clinical Services, Salem Community Hospital
Scribe: Pat Smith, Trumbull County Dept. of Job & Family Services
Breakout Session #6: Orientation 101: Educating While Developing Understanding and Respect Among Staff
Retention studies point to the fact that management and leadership are key drivers in a person's decision to stay with or leave a company.
This breakout session explored the growing complexity of motivational issues that have appeared within the healthcare industry from promotion of career opportunity to employee satisfaction and pride. Healthcare executives provided valuable insight from lessons learned and addressed ways to create the management culture of the future.
Session #6
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Session #6 Issues and Ideas
Session #6 Notes
Director: Tila Miller, Community Action Agency of Columbiana County
Facilitator: Suzanne Fleming, Research Associate, Center for Urban Studies, Youngstown State University
Presenter: Dr. Carolyn Martin, Rainmaker Thinking, Inc.
Scribe: Carol Trube, Youngstown State University
Breakout Session #7: Redefining the Workplace: A New Place to Build Community
With increasing competition from industries within the region and opportunities outside our area, finding talent and retaining talent is becoming a virtual battle and employees are becoming more and more selective about the career opportunities they choose. What factors are affecting your potential employees' decisions?
Becoming the industry of choice will require employers to relate to the needs of a diverse labor market and to develop an industry mechanism to identify employee satisfaction.
This breakout session explored the key drivers that could make or break offers and uncovered how retention drivers have changed and what motivates part-time and full-time employees.
Session #7
Presentation
Session #7 Issues and Ideas
Session #7 Notes
Director: Linda Nwosu, Eastern Ohio AHEC
Facilitator: Darwin Smith, M.Ed, CHSP, Director of Human Resources, East Liverpool City Hospital
Presenter: Dr. Carolyn Martin, Rainmaking Thinker, Inc.
Scribe: Mary Lou Feranto, Kent State University
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