Workplace
Basic Skills
Workplace
Basic Skills are the core skills that employees need to do
their jobs successfully. These skills are
critical to the success of modern
businesses. They are also crucial in public
sector workplaces such as hospitals, schools and
government offices.
Workplace
basic skills include literacy skills and other important
skills, attitudes and behaviors that are essential to
workplace success and high performance.
Gaining
basic skills also has a positive impact on employees'
attitudes and behaviors. This is often just as
valuable to employers as the skills gains
themselves.
For
example, employees who improve their basic skills are also
likely to become more conscientious. Once they
become fully aware of what is expected of them and how
their efforts fit into the big picture, and then receive
the skills to meet those demands, the quality of their
work generally rises.
Workplace
Basic Skills include:
-
Understanding
and ability to use prose (such as reports, letters,
and equipment manuals)
-
Communicating
effectively in English
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Understanding
and ability to use documents (such as safety
instructions, assembly directions, maps)
-
Understanding
and ability to use numbers by themselves or charts and
tables
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Thinking
critically and acting logically to solve problems and
make decisions
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Using
computers, technology, tools and information systems
effectively
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Ability to
build and work in teams
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Positive
attitude toward change
-
Willingness
and ability to learn for life
Workplace
Basic Skills include the International
Adult Literacy Survey definition of literacy skills.
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Last updated: March 16, 2001 . |