To wrap up this series, we’ll focus on how to synthesize this discussion into a clear narrative about the quality jobs challenge in your region and a clear strategy for your organization.

In this discussion, we’ll focus on two other ways in which your organization/region might be able to improve job quality: investing in talent development and productivity improvements, and empowering workers. Again, the Brookings team will do a brief presentation, with most of the time reserved for discussion.

In this discussion, we’ll present updated data based on feedback from the previous call. We’ll then focus on how this new data might allow your organization/region to more precisely prioritize the sectors/firms that concentrate good jobs, and how your organization can inform businesses about why and how they should improve job quality. The Brookings team will do a brief presentation on these two topics, with most of the time reserved for sharing and discussion among participants.

This discussion will focus on how to measure job quality and related disparities. The Brookings team will present a new but broadly similar set of data, based on a refined measurement approach. We will also suggest a few ways that this basic approach could be modified or extended (e.g., more or different wage levels, more demographic or industry or geographic detail). We hope to get participants’ feedback on the basic approach and what additional data would be most useful.

This call will be data-centric but we want and need input from people who are not data experts! We need to understand what the narrative in your region is, among businesses and other actors, and how you’re trying to shape that narrative.