Looking for ways to improve
your Essential Skills?

Workplace Education Manitoba is your complete source for Essential Skills consultation, assessment and co-funded workplace training partnerships.

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. Computer Use
  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.

Resources

These resources — articles, reports, tools, presentations and more — will help keep you current.

  1. Learner Materials
  2. Instructional Materials
  3. Awareness Tools
  4. More resources

Essential Skills Blog

Learn more about workplace Essential Skills and share your knowledge with others.

  1. More blog posts