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Most companies overlook the most basic of all training functions: the onboarding of new employees into their corporate culture.

A well-trained workforce is critical to small-business success. What I hear from business is that it's hard to find help that meets their needs.

We have a training period; we have certain guidelines and structure. You can't hire talented people and stifle them. That's not the way it works anymore.

Many training programs and often schools focus on just a skill or a kind of work competency. That's only half the equation.

Developing skills is as important as training. A larger effort is needed to create a skilled workforce with employment potential.

Through the program, they get the basics of what it takes to train.

Public-Private Partnership in financing, service delivery and provision of workspaces and training of trainers must be promoted to meet the demand and supply gap in the field of skill development.

The training comes to us with the benefit of what has gone before.

The needs of the business sector must be understood.

Here in Arkansas, we are preparing a generation of learners to meet the needs of businesses by equipping students with workforce training opportunities statewide.