TPM Academy Application

Prior to completing and submitting your application, please check each box below and sign your full name to acknowledge your understanding that, if selected, you agree to:

Attend all in-person TPM Academy of Workforce Development Board of Central Ohio dates as listed in their entirety
Pay the Workforce Development Board of Central Ohio $500
Arrange your own travel and lodging throughout the TPM Academy

Fill Out Application Below

1. Name

First

Last

2. Title

3. Organization

4. Phone Number

5. Email Address

6. How did you hear about the TPM Academy?

7. Describe your community’s skills and people gaps challenges, and your organization’s role and/or existing activities to improve the talent development/skills gap in your community or region. (300 words or less)*

8. Please describe the focus of your talent development efforts:

New employees

Existing employees

9. Do you anticipate a focus on new workers? If so, what are the three key challenges your employers face in developing new workers?

10. Do you anticipate a focus on upskilling incumbent workers? If so, how do you define upskilling and how do you think upskilling could be applied in your effort?

11. Describe how you will leverage TPM and your participation in the Academy to address your community’s skills gap challenge.*

12. How do you intend to leverage what you gain from participating in the TPM Academy and implement action steps in the short- and long-term? Please describe the relationships, alignments, and/or partnerships your organization currently engages in that will be relevant to

13. Please describe your access to the businesses and employers in your community and give an example of a group of businesses/employers you could convene for future TPM projects. Describe how you would access them.*

14. Describe your community’s skills gap challenge(s), or in TPM speak, what is the “pain point” you seek to address with TPM? What is your organization’s role and/or existing activities to improve the current state? Please respond in 500 words or less.

15. How do you intend to leverage what you gain from participating in the TPM Academy and implement action steps in the near term? In the long term? With whom will you partner to achieve these goals? Please respond in 500 words or less.

16. Implementation of the TPM framework may require significant commitment of time resources. Discuss your and your organization’s capacity to implement TPM to address the pain points referenced above? Explain any bandwidth or resource constraints. Please respond in 500 words or less.

17. Does your organization have Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion goals?

Yes

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