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Business Solutions...a Certification that Works!

The Business Solutions Professional (BSP) Certification Program, developed jointly by South Central Michigan Works! (SCMW!) and the School of Labor and Industrial Relations, Michigan State University (MSU), is one of three strategies funded by the Governor's 21st Century Workforce Initiative. The Business Solutions Professional Process - the goal of the certification training - is to educate Economic Development, Workforce Development, and Education Professionals on how to blend assets to play a much more significant role in retaining and creating jobs in communities. The (BSP) Process effectively enables the practitioner to meet the demands - the problems and challenges - faced by many businesses.

This process operationalizes the demand-driven approach promoted in the Workforce Investment Act legislation and guidelines, and employs a business focused, demand driven approach based on partnerships with a network of local service and resource providers to leverage available programs and services to address the unique needs of individual businesses as identified by the BSP practitioner in the field. The business "demand" may be a need for assistance to take advantage of an opportunity for growth or attraction projects or the need may be to address conditions which hinder the company's ability to compete.

The Business Solutions Process works because it focuses on meeting the unique needs of individual businesses - one at a time - in a timely and efficient manner. It creates and catalyzes flexibility, creativity, and agility in and between the partners to help businesses to meet current, ever-changing demands. The Business Solutions Process removes the barriers between the many and varied sources of assets and services available to the business and brings those resources to the business through a single contact individual/team. Business leaders are not concerned with the source of the assets and services - they just want them!

NOTICE: All trainings are full until October 2010