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Investing in Essential Skills can result in:
ü Higher productivity
ü Reduced error rates
ü Improved safety
ü Reduced absenteeism
ü Greater employee
retention
ü Enhanced communication
and teamwork
ü Improved employee
morale
ü Enhanced corporate
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Getting started:
The Essential Skills toolkit consists of a series of generic, easy-to-use tools that can help you integrate Essential Skills into the workplace through human resources practices such as training, hiring, and assessment. They include:
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Essential Skills Hiring Checklist |
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- This tool is designed to support employers' hiring decisions. Employers can collect information about the Essential Skills of potential employees, and compare it with the skills required for the position being filled.
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Essential Skills Survey |
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- This tool is designed to help employers identify potential Essential Skills issues or areas of strength in the workplace.
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Essential Skills Workplace Check-up |
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- This tool is designed to help employers gather useful employee feedback to improve human resources practices, such as training.
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Essential Skills Training Activities |
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- This tool is designed to help employers incorporate Essential Skills into workplace training. It includes a series of activities that focus on each of the nine skills and can be incorporated into formal or informal training to help employees improve their Essential Skills.
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A variety of new tools will be available in 2007, including support for self-assessment, portfolio development, and strategies for integrating Essential Skills upgrading into the workplace.
Your feedback on the tools is appreciated. To order copies of the tools and other Essential Skills publications, visit the FAQs section.
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