Temporary workers will only be with your organization for a short period of time. How do you balance their training to be the shortest time period possible while still ensuring they can do the job correctly?

On your family farm, some of your employees will inevitably be family members. When you begin training them, you will need to ensure that the employee who happens to be family is held just as accountable to a clear job description as employees who aren’t family.

Formal training can be found in most organizations as it is easy to measure and evaluate.

Informal training mirrors the learning process human nature follows in most life experiences.

Many members of younger generations engage in job surfing as they attempt to find a career that suits them well.

Documentation helps your employees understand what’s expected of them.

Visual training allows your employees to access information they need, no matter what language they speak.

In a struggling economy, trim your low-performance employees and develop your high-performance employees.

AFPA proposes to develop and deliver an English in the Workplace Train the Trainer and Mentoring Program, to provide expert training & coaching for to up to ten ESL instructors based in food processing plants. This program would be developed & delivered by individuals with expertise in the Canadian Language Benchmarks, English in the [...]

General Insight
Many companies provide additional personal development options to their employees. This can be leadership training, further education, or other alternatives that benefit the employer while the employee is with the company. Additional training also increases the employability of your staff.
Sometimes providing extra training to your employees makes them very loyal. Sometimes, however, this training [...]

Internal Weakness
Do your employees know what they need to know to do their jobs? As elementary as it sounds, while employees usually know that they need to “get the job done” it isn’t always as clear how to do it. This can be simply a matter of poor internal training, but can also [...]

External Weakness
Do your prospective employees know what’s required of them to work with you? Employers often just expect to get lucky with regards to finding an employee with the right skills for their available positions. Sure, many jobs do just require basic, standard skills, training, or tickets. But does your labour pool know [...]

Alberta Workforce Essential Skills Society (AWES) will provide a forum in which to foster partnerships, facilitate networking opportunities and promote collaboration by:

Undertaking activities that demonstrate the economic and social value of workforce literacy training and development.
Initiating and facilitating provincial networking opportunities for interested stakeholders.
Soliciting input from and participation of stakeholders.
Responding to interest shown by potential [...]