Local
Employers
Consider
contacting other successful local employers and have them mentor
your efforts in employee basic skills training and
development.
Alternatively,
you can access information about the experiences, successes and
challenges of other employers in the United States and Canada
through findings from major national research projects about
workplace education programs.
You
can learn about hiring,
preparing, retaining, and advancing of low-skilled, low-wage
workers in the workplace through the Workforce
Innovation Networks (WINs). Through WINs,
The
Center for Workforce Preparation supports peer-to-peer
leadership development and capacity building of local chambers
through technology and other resources.
URL: http://www.uschamber.com/CWP/Projects/default.htm
A new report by the
Council for Advancement of Adult Literacy shares the views of
adult education practitioners and researchers on tools
and standards for building and assessing quality adult
literacy programs.
URL: http://www.caalusa.org
The Awards for
Excellence in Workplace Literacy showcase exemplary
workplace literacy programs in Canadian organizations.
Look in the Ideabooks for past winners and top
contenders in small, medium and large business categories.
URL:
http://www.conferenceboard.ca/nbec/literacy.htm
This recent report
on joint labor-management educational programs uses best
practice examples to show the key design elements as well as the
benefits and impacts for organizations, unions and individual
workers.
Success
by Design
(pdf, 258 KB)
A new report from
WINs on hiring, retaining and advancing front-line workers serves
as an HR guide for small and mid-sized employers. The report,
based on real company experiences, is available for free from
the Jobs for the Future web site, under Workforce Development.
URL: http://www.jff.org/jff
One company shares its training
success story using e-learning. In addition to saving $1
million on training during the first year e-learning was
implemented, the company says that the real value came from
improved customer service.
URL: http://www.workforce.com/archive/feature/23/27/95/232798.php
The Small Business Training
Network, sponsored by the Office of Entrepreneurial
Development, is a virtual campus housing free training courses,
workshops and knowledge resources designed to assist
entrepreneurs.
URL:
http://www.sba.gov/training/
Incentives to train:
Ensuring employer engagement is a UK research report (40
pages) looks at findings from interviews and a roundtable
discussion. Participants evaluated existing provision to
incentivise training for employers, identifying the major areas
of concern and proposing recommendations for change.
URL:
http://www.nationalskillsforum.org.uk/Incentives_to%20Train%20(2).pdf
Profiting from Experience
is a new research report that explores how governments and
employers in the U.S. and other countries are responding to
aging workforce issues.
URL:
http://www.aarp.org/research/work/issues/intl_older_worker.html
Making the Connections is a guidebook designed to
help employer associations serve their members in workforce
development needs. This guidebook focuses on workforce
development for entry-level positions.
URL:
http://www.jff.org/Documents/MakingConnect.pdf
A report on the Sectoral Employment
Initiative shares the results of targeting industries,
training workers and improving opportunities for
less-educated workers.
URL:
http://www.ppv.org/ppv/publications/assets/263_publication.pdf
The Ill-Prepared U.S.
Workforce: Exploring the Challenges of Employer-Provided
Workforce Readiness Training examines corporate practices on
training newly hired graduates at three educational levels: high
school, two-year college, and four-year college.
URL:
http://www.cvworkingfamilies.org/publications/workforcereadiness
Workplace
Literacy & Essential Skills: What works? And why?: Literature
Review is a Canadian report written to anchor discussion at
the 2009 Summer Institute. The report follows on from a New
Zealand report and it surveys research, policy and practice in
workplace literacy from Canada, the United States, the UK,
Australia and New Zealand.
URL:
http://www.nald.ca/library/research/cfl/wles/wles.pdf
NC-CALL 12.
Local Perspectives on WIA Reauthorization
reports on local programs and
institutions identified as providing exemplary "adult education
for work" services.
URL:
http://www.caalusa.org/LPP.pdf
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Last updated: Apr. 1, 2010. |