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your Essential Skills?

The 21st century workplace needs a skilled workforce that's efficient, effective and adaptable, while workers need the skills required to perform successfully at work.


 

Learn more about how Essential Skills impact individual and organizational performance

Essential Skills

What makes the nine workplace Essential Skills key to individual and organizational success?

  1. Continuous Learning
  2. Digital Technology
  3. Thinking
  4. Working With Others
  5. Oral Communication
  6. Writing
  7. Numeracy
  8. Document Use
  9. Reading

Case Studies

Examples from our files show the strong benefits of Essential Skills upgrading.

A training need can present itself at any time

Training is – or should be - an ongoing process to ensure everyone can meet changing job and task needs.

Resistance to Change... or an Essential Skills Need?

Absenteeism, grievances, workplace friction: are these symptoms of an Essential Skills issue?

Essential Skills training is key to productivity improvements

Changes to work processes to increase productivity are only possible with adequate levels of Essential Skills.

Essential Skills News

All the Essential Skills news in Manitoba that's fit to post.

Working with ColourAd Packaging

Winnipeg's ColourAd Packaging has been gearing up to double production this year, adding employees and intensifying training to bring everyone up to desired speed. In a recent story in Business Review Canada Magazine, they tip their hat to their partnership with WEM and our role in infusing Essential Skills throughout their training schedule. Read the article online (page 316) by clicking here.

WEM and LPM co-host ES workshop for National Essential Skills Day

As part of Learn at Work Week AND Literacy Month celebrations, Friday, September 23 has been designated National Essential Skills Day. Workplace Education Manitoba  & Literacy Partners of Manitoba will celebrate by offering a full day of Essential Skills-focused learning at the Viscount Gort.

WEM in the Canadian Apprenticeship Journal

Jonathan Coté and Lindsay Laidlaw connect the dots to show how WEM's Essential Skills solutions are the linchpin for one of Manitoba's key workforce development strategies: enhancing supports for apprentices and trades qualifiers struggling to overcome barriers to training, while at the same time increasing participation of under-represented groups in the trades.

Learning on Demand

Increasingly, people expect to be able to learn on their own terms: anytime, anywhere, in a way that meets their needs. Workplace Education Manitoba is proud to launch the internet-based ES: Learning On Demand. It’s just one more way to deliver Essential Skills learning support.

  1. (video series) Numeracy – The Basics