Strengthening your community’s competitive advantage through human capital

Strategic Labour Market Planning

Our team is experienced in leading communities through a consultative process that examines the inter-relationships and inter-connections across labour market planning and economic development. This approach leads to an integrated local labour market plan that offers documented strategies and actions to support workforce development approaches directed at existing and emerging economy needs.

Workforce Development

We utilize innovative approaches to present evidence that informs communities about their current labour force skills assets and deficits. This is valuable in guiding the identification of future skills and talent requirements to support current and projected sector competitiveness.

Attraction and Retention

Utilizing our knowledge of labour force populations including youth, older workers, ‘next generation’, and immigrants, to name a few, our team will assist communities in developing attraction and retention strategies that utilize community assets to attract and retain human capital.

Youth out-migration has been identified as a challenge facing many municipalities and provinces. Opportunity exists to validate the extent to which youth out-migration is a challenge and to establish strategic approaches to strengthen a community’s attractiveness and ability to retain this target population.

Region’s that advance as “welcoming communities” are best positioned to attract, integrate and retain the necessary talent to support labour supply and demand and business development and expansion needs. Our team is experienced in forging strategies to support immigrant attraction, retention and integration, contributing to the community fabric, competitiveness, and economic growth.

Transitioning populations impacted by economic shifts at the local level is a critical element to reducing unemployment levels, and socio/economic impacts on residents, communities, and neighbourhoods. We utilize a community-influenced approach to research, analyze and create local strategies to support populations that are impacted through downsizing, closures, and the demand for knowledge and highly specialized skill sets.

Informing Intermediaries through Local Labour Market Research

Our focus is to apprise local not-for-profit, business, association, government and economic development intermediaries through evidenced-based local labour market research of the forces that influence and impact on local, regional, provincial and global economies.

Building Community Capacity through Information Sharing

Drawing on the extensive knowledge of our team, we are pleased to share tools, best practices and knowledge of labour market planning and workforce development and its importance in the context of strengthening community competitiveness. We do this through workshops, presentations, conference keynote opportunities and seminars.