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The vision for lifelong learning, in the context of workforce development, is to <br />enable current and future workers to continually acquire the knowledge, skills, and <br />abilities required to be successful in the workplace. <br />C. Provide a description of your local strategies, based upon your local board's vision <br />for business services, to improve the services to employers, and include in your <br />description [WIA Section 118(b)(10)]: <br />1. Your vision and strategic planning efforts for business services. <br />2. How you use industry partnerships and other employer contacts to validate <br />employer needs. <br />3. What actions the local board has taken, or plans to take, to ensure that local <br />business services are not redundant and coordinated with partner programs <br />such as Wagner-Peyser and Economic Development Corporations. <br />4. How the local board measures the satisfaction of business services and how the <br />data are used to improve services. <br />D. Describe how the local board is addressing lifelong learning in the context of <br />workforce development, through collaborative policy and planning. Specifically, <br />describe how the local board will improve and promote access to lifelong learning in <br />the next year. Include existing or planned efforts to leverage resources with local <br />lifelong learning partners, including business and education. <br />E. Identify organizations involved in the development of your local vision and goals. <br />_- -- <br />III. LABOR MARKET ANALYSIS <br />The Planning Guidance and Instructions requests information on key trends expected to <br />shape the economic environment during the next five years, including the implications of <br />these trends in terms of overall employment opportunities by occupation; key <br />occupations; the skills needed to attain local occupational opportunities; growth <br />industries and industries expected to decline, customer demographics, and the sources <br />of data used to gather this information. Where appropriate, identify any regional <br />economic development needs and describe how the local area will be involved in them. <br />In this section identify the needs of businesses, job training, and education seekers, <br />economic development professionals, and training providers in your workforce <br />investment area. Are these the same or different than those present in the previous <br />service delivery area(s)? If different, how can the needs be better met by the new, <br />local workforce investment system? To complete this section, answer the following <br />questions. _ <br />A. What are the workforce investment needs of businesses, job-seekers, and workers <br />in the local area? [WIA Section 118(b){1)(A)] <br />FW IAB99-2A 6 of 18 Rev. 9/08 <br />19D-9 <br />