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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.

Essential Skills News

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

Flin Flon C of C gets ES briefing

WEM's northern coordinator Marlene Gogol had a rapt audience for her message to Flin Flon and District's Chamber of Commerce on how enhancing Essential Skills benefits the whole community.

Essential Skills in more workplaces in more communities

Parklands Regional Coordinator Charlene Gulak gets the Essential Skills message out at last month's Rural Entrepreneurship Conference in Dauphin.

WEM on NALD

WEM is NALD's June feature for the month.

Essential Skills Blog

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

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