PowerNotes LLC and its principal, MaryAnn Lawrence, is a national leader in all matter’s employment and training.

 

Forty plus years’ experience in four consecutive USDOL funded workforce legislations provides for industry best practices to assist federal, state, regional, and local workforce system partners. MaryAnn assists all levels of employment and training meet administrative and operational challenges. You will love her transformational mixed with visionary management style to help you achieve maximum excellence. She helps good workforce systems get even better and to attain and sustain high performance.

 

MaryAnn helps to untangle complex legislative topics and present them in more understandable manner to help workforce professionals make more effective and informed decisions.

 

Here are some examples of workforce consultation projects PowerNotes has engaged in:

 

• Revising and developing new policies and procedures
• Establish Workforce Development Board Member orientation
• Assist in Workforce Development Board Committee development
• Help Boards prepare for and interview executive leadership positions
• Create new and innovative program designs
• Collaborate with system partners to write and/or update the local integrated plan
• Conduct procurement for one stop operator
• Conduct procurement for adult, dislocated worker, and youth programs
• Prepare American Job Center electronic orientations
• Assist with developing job descriptions and organizational charts
• Create performance management dashboards and balanced scorecards
• Strategize on meeting performance measures
• Understand continuous improvement models and implementation
• Research information such as pay for performance practices
• Set up registered apprenticeship programs
• Understand the transformation to a new normal after the pandemic
• Conduct workflow analysis
• Consult on conducting task analysis
• Business services team developed
• Create sector partnerships
• Critique and freshen up quarterly narrative reports to meet grant requirements
• Using social media to recruit
• Develop annual reports
• Relationship management
• Implementing career development plans for staff
• Review participant and business services paperwork and make improvements
• Advise on creating a workforce association locally and statewide