Workforce Development, a non-credit earning program designed to assist employers in training their employees, is hoping to move to a new location.
“We offer custom training and consulting services that meet the needs of he businesses that are located in that region,” Director of Public Relations Adam Murka said.
Workforce Development currently has a location in the Miami Valley Research Park, but will move to a 7,000 to 7,500 square foot leased location in Beavercreek on Pentagon Boulevard, off of I-675.
“When you look at the Pentagon Boulevard area, that is actually the fastest-growing group of employers in our entire region, in terms of a cluster,” Deb Norris, vice president of Workforce Development and Corporate Services, said. “When you look at the proximity to Wright Patterson Air Force Base for us … It’s a nice cluster there, so when you look at the high growth, it’s a nice connection for us in the products and services that we’ve developed in our division, it’s just a nice fit.”
She said Sinclair hopes the new location will move by the first of the year, depending on board approval.
Norris said the services and products Workforce Development would offer to the employers will help drive more business for them.
“The idea is that everybody helps everybody else do better business,” she said.
Norris said there is a connection between workforce development and economic growth.
“There’s really such a strong intersection between workforce development and economic development,” Norris said. “Companies aren’t going to move into our area and they’re not going to stay if they don’t have the workforce that they need to do the business that they need to do.”
The following programs will be offered through the new location:
• Unmanned Aerial Systems
• Partnership Activities: Wright State Research Institute
• Partnership Activities: Wright Patterson Air Force Base and Air Force Research Laboratory
• Defense Acquisition Academy Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance
• Project Management Boot camp
• Process Improvement/Lean.
“We don’t do any of the college credit stuff; we’ve never touched that,” Norris said. “What we like to think that we do for businesses is make them better, just like what the rest of the college does for the students, they make a difference in their life.”