Feedback Session at Gill on July 30th

Gill Industries, a manufacturing and design company that does work with clients ranging from Volkswagen to Lear, welcomed our team to their headquarters on Thursday, July 30th in Grand Rapids, Michigan.  Based upon the feedback that we received from Progressive AE on July 11th, our team calibrated what proficiency would look like for each of the skills within the Employability Skills Framework.  As with the session at Progressive AE on the 11th, we invited employees from Gill Industries to respond to our work by letting us know what they "liked" (Where did they think we hit the nail on the head?), "wondered" (What criteria might we need to change, adjust, etc. to better align with the world of work?), and "had" (What they recommend or know of, whether that be a resource, a connection, a person to talk to, etc?)

Based upon the myriad of sticky-notes that they wrote for us (as can be seen in the picture above), along with the group discussion that followed, we made numerous adjustments to how we are thinking about "proficiency" for students in each of the Employability Skills.  In particular, here are some insights that Gill Industries helped solidify for us: