Taking Action: A Guide - Integrating Essential Skills Training into the Workplace via ABC Life Literacy Canada

Taking Action: A Guide -

Integrating Essential Skills Training into the Workplace

ABC Life Literacy Canada

This guide is designed to help employers and practitioners develop Essential Skills training for the workplace. It contains seven steps which provide an overview of the process, from conducting a needs assessment to performing

a program evaluation. A more comprehensive tool,

Taking Action: A Guide -

Integrating Essential Skills Training into the Workplace, is available on the Essential Skills website.

Essential Skills are the skills that people need for work, learning and life. They provide the foundation for learning all other skills and enable people to evolve with their jobs and adapt to workplace change.

There are nine Essential Skills:

❚ Reading

❚ Document Use

❚ Numeracy

❚ Writing

❚ Oral Communication

❚ Working with Others

❚ Thinking

❚ Computer Use

❚ Continuous Learning

Investing in Essential Skills can lead to many benefits, including increased productivity, and improved employee morale and safety. Essential Skills training can positively impact your organization as a whole, as well as the individuals involved.

Essential Skills training doesn’t have to be time consuming or complicated. It can be comprehensive or quick and targeted, depending on your organization’s requirements.  READ MORE >>