Support/facilitate workforce development goals;

Ensure that the workforce system is responsive to consumers and employers;

Address workforce development needs of the state and provide the best services;

Serve as convener, coordinator, connecting group for the workforce development system;

Execute the vision of the GWIB Executive Committee;

Provide linkages to other groups;

Educate GWIB members about workforce development issues;

Elevate emerging issues to the appropriate level;

Recommend solutions for workforce development issues and concerns;

Create linkages to make the workforce system work;

Talk and listen to each other;

Disseminate information down, sideways, throughout entire workforce.