Colleyville, Texas

Around the nation, both public and private sector organizations are feeling the impact of the baby boomer exodus from the workforce.  This creates a need for first-rate employee development programs to retain and strengthen valued staff members.  Colleyville’s answer to these challenges was the creation of a Workforce Development and Sustainability Plan to address and help meet the basic requirements of the city’s main resource – its employees.  Recognizing the need for competitive compensation, succession planning, and quality staff development, the plan provides the city with a unified, integrated, and broad-based approach to dealing with all three needs.  Because this plan can easily be duplicated by other cities, Colleyville officials have been invited to make presentations about the program on a national level.