Essential Skills Training: It’s Worth It

Are your employees trapped behind roadblocks?

Your employees may know your product and your customers, but what they don’t know may surprise you.

Nearly half of adult Canadians struggle with essential skills such as working with numbers, navigating through documents or using a computer. Many are forced to adopt sophisticated coping techniques to remain undetected, while others would contribute more in team meetings but lack the confidence to speak up. This reality costs Canadian businesses millions of dollars every year.

The good news is that with as little as 40 hours of essential skills training, most employees can improve their skills by using tools and resources that are either free, or available at a nominal cost.

The Quebec English Literacy Alliance (QELA) can help you identify your employee training needs. We will coordinate literacy and essential skills practitioners to work with your management to customize a training program that can be incorporated in your day-to-day operations. If a more focused approach is required, QELA can connect you with resources that offer training on- or off-site.

Where do you start? Click on the Organizational Needs Assessment tool below to determine whether essential skills gaps are affecting your company’s performance, then contact QELA toll-free 1-866-942-7352 for support.

Boost performance with literacy and essential skills training today.

RESOURCES:
What’s_in_it_for_you - What are the Benefits of Investing in Essential Skills? (PDF, 306 KB)
Organizational Needs Assessment – a framework for conducting a basic Essential Skills needs assessment in your organization (PDF, 320 KB)