Objectives and Responsibilities

• Maintain focus for the AEM workforce development initiative on specific areas of need in which a real impact may be made.
• Identify ongoing objectives, tactics and target audience.
• Support relevant industry partners for a unified AEM-led industry initiative.
• Provide guidance for the allocation of resources used to execute workforce development activities.
• Help facilitate additional AEM member engagement in the initiative.

2021 Priorities

Goal 1: Foundational Best Practices: Help every member, regardless of size, resources, location or sector, to have easy access to best practices for workforce development.

• Support the launch of the toolkit where the research, articles and best practices are categorized by content, supported by step-by-step implementation ideas and reflected with case studies from our own member organizations.
• Promote workforce services to members: various remote and onsite consulting packages, presentations and access to gated content available to members.
• Promote the Organizational Workforce Development Assessment and Community Asset Mapping Tool accessible through the Solutions Toolkit.

Goal 2: Build Industry–Education Partnerships

• Form an Industry Education subcommittee with a goal to identify a common set of nationally portable, existing, industry-recognized work and learn programs, certifications and credentials that we can connect members with.

Ongoing:

• Facilitate formal partnerships with industry partners, education partners and student membership organizations.
• Expand equipment industry engagement in K-12 workforce development outreach.
• Annual Workforce Solutions Summit focused on providing members with workforce ideas and solutions.
• Youth/Industry engagement.
• Agriculture teacher scholarship program continuation.

Composition

• Executive level representatives from AEM member companies.

Leadership

• The Chair is elected by the group and serves a two-year term.
• The Vice Chair is elected by the group and serves until Chair succession.

Meetings

• At least one face-to-face meeting annually, in conjunction with other meetings/events if possible.
• Additional WebEx or conference call meetings as required.