Getting Started
Getting ready for a workplace education program is easier than you might think. Take these steps:
- Use this Workplace Education Checklist to identify any workplace essential skills issues.
- Get support. Contact your provincial government or literacy coalition to find out about funding or partnership supports. Then contact your local literacy organization. to learn about teaching support.
- Use this checklist or editable PowerPoint template as a tool to make a case to the key people at your workplace for a workplace training program.
Now that you're ready, here's how to get your program started:
- Form a planning committee from your workplace.
- Conduct a workplace needs assessment.
- Run the program. At set points, evaluate the program so you can make improvements and address new needs to guarantee success for tomorrow.
Celebrate Essential Skills Day
This September, ABC Life Literacy Canada will help raise awareness of essential skills and the importance of skills training in the workplace. Read more
Five signs your workers may be struggling with literacy and essential skills
- Change initiatives often fail or are slow to be implemented.
- Employees are reluctant to participate in team meetings and avoid training sessions.
- Excellent employees continually turn down promotion opportunities.
- Staff make excuses. For example, “I’ll read it later,” or “ I forgot my glasses,” when put in situations where reading or writing is required.
- Employee absenteeism is high.
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