New Ways to Work

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Principles of Practice

New Ways to Work provides technical assistance, training, customized
tools, and facilitated support to employers, schools, workforce entities,
community organizations, and community collaboratives interested in
developing systems that better prepare young people for their future.

New Ways is guided by five principles of organizational practice:

A systems approach focusing on building community capacity and change solutions, utilizing a five-stage Systems Change Model:

Click on the image below for a full description of the five stage process of building comprehensive youth serving systems.

Grounded in practice, providing content expertise based on direct practitioner experience to hundreds of communities and organizations in

Workforce Development
School-to-Career
Youth Employment
Employer Engagement

Youth Development
Work-Based Learning
Educational Improvement
Intermediary Structures

Actively engaged community stakeholders, involving all levels of invested staff, resulting in partners committed to specific actions and agreed upon roles and responsibilities.

Effective facilitated processes, utilizing a facilitated, organizational development process which focuses on quality change strategies, outcome completion and the application of quality practices, tools and materials through

Experienced facilitators
Work group and intensive institute processes
High value process tools and materials
Methods to address multiple learning and doing styles

Yields measurable results, producing defined work products and outcomes tailored to meet community need

Clarity of purpose
Defined work products
Tailored tools and materials

Focused on results
Measurable outcomes
Continuous Improvement