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