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 DECA's
State Business Partnership
Network
Do you want to
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reduce hiring and training
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reduce employee turnover? |
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provide better service to your customers? |
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generate goodwill for your business? |
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become involved in your community? |
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Look no farther!
Join DECA's State Business Partnership Network
The State Business Partnership Network can help
you find and influence well-prepared employees-employees
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know how things are done
in your industry |
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have performed the tasks the position
requires in real and simulated situations |
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can provide documentation of abilities
and experiences through a network of businesspeople |
DECA's State Business Partnership Network
What is the SBP and why participate?
The Partnership
A State Business Partnership (SBP) is a task force of
businesspeople and Marketing Education/DECA representatives
partnering to enhance Marketing Education/DECA. The State
Business Partnerships offer unlimited opportunities to
affect the education of thousands of Marketing Education/DECA
students-your future employees. Creating well-prepared
employees is possible when businesspeople identify the
skills students need to be successful on the job, and
take an active role in training and evaluating those students.
This training can be accomplished by
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providing internships
in your business |
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serving as a competitive events judge
at DECA's Career Development Conferences |
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sharing real world business experiences
with students as a workshop facilitator or classroom
speaker |
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providing enhanced work experiences
to student employees who have mastered skill standards
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Students' abilities can be evaluated and documented
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partnering with educators
to integrate industry skill standards in curriculum
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working together to develop and/or
implement activities that train students for current
business needs |
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jointly recognizing students trained
in those skills |
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endorsing Marketing Education/DECA
program that effectively train students in skill
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The Goal
By working directly with Marketing Education/DECA, the
educational program preparing students in career skills,
the business community can influence the training students
receive and shape the work force of the future.
State Business Partnership Network
The National Connection
To perpetuate the success and efficiency of each task
force, the individual SBPs are networked on the national
level through National DECA and DECA's corporate National
Advisory Board.
Who is participating?
The Partners
State DECA Leaders...
work with businesspeople to plan and facilitate activities
that enhance the career skills students are learning through
Marketing Education/DECA, and promote the commitment demonstrated
by partner companies.
Businesspeople...
collaborate as SBP leaders, communicating industry needs,
partnering to develop activities that enhance career training
for students, and advocate Marketing Education/DECA as
an important program for career preparation.
Local Marketing Educators/DECA Advisors and Businesspeople...
partner in specific classroom, work-based, and other activities
that provide enhanced, real-life career education for
students.
National DECA...
provides continuous support, training, and information
related to business/education partnerships, as well as
facilitates and promotes the Network nationally.
The National Retail Federation and DECA's National
Advisory Board...
provide guidance related to industry needs and skill standards,
and encourage company representatives to participate in
state and local level partnerships.
YOU CAN BE A PARTNER TOO!
Contact your State DECA Coordinator (at the State Department
of Education) or National DECA for more information.
What can you do?
The Projects
The following suggestions outline a few areas of SBP involvement.
The SBP coordinator in your state and National DECA can
provide additional information on how to implement the
following activities and others.
Dialogue with teachers: Interact with
teachers on curriculum, industry skill standards, establishing
career paths, credentialing, and workplace training.
Work with students: Involve business
representatives as speakers, judges, and resource people
for local and state DECA competitions and marketing classrooms.
Skill Standards: Endorse and participate
in industry skill standard initiatives and promote their
importance within the workforce and the educational system.
Workshops: Conduct workshops at DECA
conferences or teachers in-services focusing on standards
businesses use in recruiting, hiring, training and promoting
employees.
Validation: Help establish guidelines
to provide local Marketing Education/DECA programs with
business validation.
Course content and description: Work
with teachers to ensure curriculum is composed of skills
currently demanded in the career world and contribute
training resources to support educational materials. Develop
course descriptions for class directories that include
the SBP validation of the course.
Mentoring: Initiate the partnering of
students and/or teachers with businesspeople.
Recognition programs: Create programs
that recognize students and teachers for educational accomplishments.
Direct mail campaigns: Create direct
mail pieces outlining the benefits of well-trained employees
to business and society. Advocate Marketing Education/DECA
as an education program that prepares students to be productive
members of the work world.
Industry exhibits: Exhibit and promote
Marketing Education/DECA at state and/or local industry
conferences.
Public relations: Create campaigns to
publicize Marketing Education/DECA to government, business
and education officials, and the media.
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