Skills Plus -- Employer
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This document discusses essential workplace skills and how to get involved with SkillsPlus training programs. It outlines the nine essential skills - reading, document use, numeracy, writing, oral communication, working with others, thinking skills, computer use, and continuous learning. It provides information on assessing employer and employee needs, determining goals, and delivering customized on-site or off-site training. Potential benefits of the training include improved productivity, reduced errors and turnover, better communication and teamwork, and an empowered and adaptable workforce. Contact information is provided for more details.
Skills Plus -- Employer
- 1. SkillsPlus Essential Skills: you use them all day long
- 2. About Work Place Skills Video
- 3. The Nine Essential Skills are: Reading Working with Others Document Use Thinking Skills Numeracy Computer Use, Writing and... Oral Communication Continuous Learning. Readers Guide to Essential Skills
- 4. II How to Get Involved A. Call our QUALITY ASSESSMENT COUSELLORS to book an employer assessment B. We will meet with you to assess the NEEDS of both your organization and staff C. Determine your GOALS for your organization and staff so that a plan can be put in place
- 5. IV Best Practice’s A. Shown that improving Essential Skills can benefit both the EMPLOYER & the EMPLOYEES B. Job retention and advancement in the workplace C. Flexible - training scheduled outsided working hours so as to lessen any impact on production D. Employer specific - we can incorporate existing documents from your workplace into training E. Inspires life-long learning; motivating (or encouraging) an environment of continuous improvement
- 6. V How A. Employer and employee needs are first identified through small business and employee needs assessments B. Customized Essential Skills programs are created and delivered to your staff on-site or at: ESP Consulting, TRU Williams Lake Campus or Cariboo Chilcotin Partners for Literacy C. Training delivery can take place on-the-job in the workplace or wherever and whenever suits most participant needs.
- 7. What you could achieve through Essential Skills training: Here are some of the positive outcomes associated with improved workplace skills: Improved productivity Improved safety Reduced errors Reduced absenteeism and/or turnover Improved customer service Improved succession planning Empowered employees Improved ability to adapt Improved communication to change in the and/or teamwork workplace Updated NOC Profiles (National Occupational Codes)
- 8. Contact Information: For more information contact: Lory Rochon at ESP Consulting 250.395.4277 Betty Turatus at Thompson Rivers University 250.392.8057 Provided through the Canada-British Columbia Labour Market Agreement. Funded in whole or part through the Province of British Columbia, Ministry of Advanced Education
Editor's Notes
- #2: The Cariboo SkillsPlus program is funded by a grant TRU-WL was awarded from the Ministry of Advanced Education. The program is designed to upgrade essential skills in the workplace. Funded in whole or part through the Province of British Columbia, Ministry of Advanced Education
- #3: SkillsPlus – Phase III – Integrating Essential Skills in the WorkplaceIn 2008/09, the Province invested $2 million in SkillsPlus pilot projects resulting in the development and provision of workplace essential skills curriculum, assessment tools and training in a variety of small businesses in 15 B.C. communities. In May 2010, a second SkillsPlus Request for Proposal resulted in the funding of $2 million for eight projects more projects.This expanded the criteria to include medium sized businesses (fewer than 500 employees).During this second phase additional training in essential skills such as computer use, reading and numeracy was built into regular workplace-based training, enabling employees and their employers to benefit from a broader range of increased skills.For the third phase of the initiative ESP Consulting has partnered with:Thompson Rivers University and CCPL
- #4: Definitions of 9 Essential Skills: http://www.hrsdc.gc.ca/eng/workplaceskills/LES/definitions/definitions.shtml
- #5: OpportunitiesAssessments and training are from the “ground –up.” Designed to meet the needs of the employer and individual employees.Step 1 –Organizational needs assessments –What training will work best for your company? Step 2 -Individual needs assessments –What training most suits individual employee’s needs?Step 3 -Training Plan development in collaboration (based on steps one & 2)Step 4 –Self-directed learning plansStep 5 –Essential Skills and Industry Training Program implementationThe program itself is not defined as it will be created from the participants’ assessments and the needs assessments of the organizations. As mentioned before, this program is built from the ground-up. Training could -if viable-be delivered on the worksite or where the participant feels most comfortable. The training would be scheduled to accommodate both the employers and employees. This means that it would be the employer’s choice to have the training during production hours. Otherwise the training is scheduled during after hours that work with the employees’ personal schedules.Participants can also self-identify, they do not need to go through their place of work. Again the only requirements are currently employed and low skilled.Tight schedule as Assessments and Training need to be complete by March end.
- #6: Business Practices:Establishing training standardsHelp employees in understanding individual strengths for career planning
- #7: How do we measure Essential Skills?What do we do to get staff up to that level?(Lory – do we have answers to these questions? so I can put these in the notes???)
- #8: Complete NOC Profiles: http://www10.hrsdc.gc.ca/es/english/all_profiles.aspxKeeps staff loyalEnhances loyaltyTrust in Employer / Employee