Return-Path: <nifl-workplace@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id f15HWf908323; Mon, 5 Feb 2001 12:32:41 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2001 12:32:41 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <v0421010cb6a490b9d53b@[146.186.96.31]> Errors-To: listowner@literacy.nifl.gov Reply-To: nifl-workplace@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-workplace@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-workplace@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: Barb Van Horn <blv1@psu.edu> To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-workplace@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-WORKPLACE:62] WorkplaceBasicSkills.Com - Free Internet site for U.S. Employers X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Status: O Content-Length: 3309 Lines: 78 Dear Subscribers, I received the following information and thought you would find it of interest. When you get a chance, please visit this site and report back to the list with your impressions and thoughts about its potential usefulness to your work in workplace literacy/workforce education. Thanks, Barb WorkplaceBasicSkills.Com - Free Internet site for U.S. Employers & Their Partners Are you interested in improving your employees' skills, especially their basic skills, so that they can learn more and perform better on the job? If you might be, and are looking for some help in deciding what to do, please visit www.workplacebasicskills.com. The Conference Board is pleased to announce the launch of http://www.workplacebasicskills.com, a free internet site that is a tool for employers and their partners, developed with funding from the U.S. Department of Education. The site will give you information about skills and advice about how to set up training programs that can solve your skills needs. It also provides links to experts and information at hundreds of other sites across the United States. The site builds on Conference Board research, which shows that you and other employers may be facing a widening gap between the workplace basic skill levels of your employees and those needed to maintain your company's competitiveness. Workplace basic skills are the core skills that employees need to do their jobs successfully. One way to improve your employees' basic skills is to set up a Workplace Education Program (WEP) that delivers the skills training they need. You can run a WEP at your workplace or get it delivered off-site. Either way, our research shows that employers gain a host of bottom line and financial benefits from their WEPs, including increased output of products and services and higher profits. The site gives you advice about how to build a workplace education program and how to find partners who can help you. Free tools are also available on the web site that can evaluate skills needs, plan a skills development strategy and identify the financial and bottom-line benefits you can expect. Throughout the site, links are included to help employers contact experts and service providers in all 50 states to develop and deliver workplace education programs. The site was launched on Jan. 31, 2001. It will be updated with the latest information every week. For more information, please contact: Alison Campbell (e-mail: campbell@conferenceboard.ca or call toll-free: 1-888-801-8818) at The Conference Board. Dr. Michael R. Bloom Associate Director, Project Development Policy, Business and Society The Conference Board of Canada 255 Smyth Road Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1H 8M7 T: 613 526-3280 ext. 229 F: 613 526-4857 E: bloom@conferenceboard.ca Website: www.conferenceboard.ca/nbec ****************** Barbara Van Horn NIFL-WORKPLACE List Co-Moderator Assistant Director Institute for the Study of Adult Literacy College of Education, The Pennsylvania State University 102 Rackley Building University Park, PA 16802-3202 Phone: 814-865-5876 Fax: 814-863-6108 E-mail: BLV1@PSU.EDU "Moving adult literacy from the Margins to the Mainstream"
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