The Trade Essentials program was designed to help clients improve their essential skills so they are better prepared to advance in their chosen career. The goal is to provide a seamless learning path to trades certification.
Integrating Essential Skills Training into the Workplace
This is an overview of the process for developing essential skills training for the workplace. The authors break the process down into seven steps: performing a needs assessment; identifying training objectives; selecting a training technique; integrating training into the workplace; finalizing training plans; obtaining employee and management support; and performing an evaluation.
Sector councils are organizations that identify, research and coordinate initiatives that support the development and management of human resources in most industries in Canada.
This handbook is designed for adult learners who are doing volunteer placements as a means of strengthening their skills and preparing for paid employment.
Heartwood House in Ottawa is an umbrella organization for more than a dozen non-profit groups. Since 2001, it has been the home of the lost and found division of OC Transpo, Ottawa’s public transit system. Clients of Heartwood House’s member agencies have the opportunity to volunteer at the lost and found division and, in the process, develop their literacy, employment and social skills.
Loewen Windows, based in the Manitoba town of Steinbach, employs almost 1,700 people and is one of Canada’s largest producers of wooden windows and doors.
The Atlantic Health Sciences Corporation (AHSC) is a regional health authority serving a catchment population of 200,000 people in southwestern New Brunswick.
Based on a successful pilot project offered by the South Shore Labour Council in Nova Scotia, this manual guides labour councils and other groups through the process of organizing and running adult education programs. In particular, the authors have focused on the challenges of running programs for multiple worksites and/or multiple unions.
This document sets out a five-hour program for training people to give effective presentations and safety talks.
The program is divided into five segments: setting the stage, which deals with challenges in presenting safety talks; how to use a script effectively; body language, voice and questioning techniques; building rapport and dealing with disruptions; and presentation practice and feedback.
