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Accelerating Talent Development via Cross Sector Collaboration features panelists from Nebraska, Ohio, and Mississippi in the August 2024 edition of WRC-Live! Discover how these collaborations are breaking down silos, fostering skill growth, and creating a more adaptable and resilient workforce.  \nVoices of Excellence on Episode 54  \nLyndsie Gibbs  \nMetropolitan Community College of Omaha  \nJustin Burch  \nDelta Compass  \nTina Gridiron  \nACT  \nPanel Moderator  \nAlex Lovrien  \nMetropolitan Community College of Omaha  \nMike Longo  \nOhio Means Jobs of Lorain County  \nFred McConnel  \nACT WRC  \nHost of WRC-Live!  \nLinks and Resources  \n•  Episode 54 of the Podcast  \n• ACT Work Ready Communities  \n• ACT Workforce Solutions  \n•  2024 ACT Workforce Summit  \nTranscript of Episode 54  \n[Opening Jingle and Music]  \nTina Gridiron: Skills-first hiring is making a difference every day. The more we can help organizations focus on ~~that pathway of~~ identifying skills and hiring for skills, the better our individuals and our communities will be.  \nJustin Burch: We are on the verge of ~~ likely within the next nine days of~~ making the largest economic development announcement ever in the Mississippi Delta.  \nAlex Lovrien: Multiple on and off ramps for students is crucial ~~because our workforce~~,~~ our students~~, this is their lives. They may need to get off for a little bit and then have the ability to jump right back on.  \nMike Longo: It was a way of taking what might have been impacting our outcomes negatively, and putting something in place to encourage folks to take their time and take it seriously.  \nLyndsie Gibbs: It helps you with staff sustainability. It helps you with just growing your effort to be bigger and larger. Every single round that you go.  \nJasen: Episode 54 of Ready for Work is an enlightening journey of Work Ready Community champions that accelerate talent development through cross sector collaboration  \n[Jingle] Let’s get Ready for Work!  \nJasen: Thanks for joining us on Ready for Work. This is Jasen Jones. A fundamental role of a Work Ready Community is collaboration across a wide range of partners and assets that make up the workforce ecosystem. In this episode of Ready for Work we hear from WRC champions Lyndsie Gibbs and Alex Lovrein of Metropolitan Community College in Omaha; Justin Burch from Delta Compass; and Mike Longo of Ohio-Means-Jobs Lorain County. Facilitating the conversation is Tina Gridiron here at ACT. Each quarter, ACT offers an exclusive webinar for Work Ready Communities called WRC-Live. We’ll join in at Tina’s introduction of the program. We’ll wrap up episode 54 with Fred McConnel on the upscale experiences planned for the upcoming ACT Workforce Summit in Atlanta.  \nTina Gridiron: Thank you so much, Jasen. It is great to be with our Work Ready Communities folks today and to have four amazing leaders that are engaged in community collaboration as part of the Work Ready Communities network. This session is a take-two of a conversation we had in DCat the Jobs for the Future conference. We invited individuals to participate in this panel, one, because a few of them were in are involved in a grant project that the E-C-M-C Foundation is supporting, where ACT gets a chance to highlight some of the great work that leaders in three communities are putting into action to see more learners from diverse backgrounds engaging in skill development and engaging in success in the workforce.  \nWe are excited about the E-C-M-C grant and the opportunity to lift up our Work Ready Communities under the umbrella of foundation support. 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