As part of an Essential Skill awareness and capacity building campaign, TOWES will deliver an information session for Immigrant Services Calgary this Friday. Using funds from the Essential Skills Workplace Services (ESWS) Project (an Office of Literacy & Essential Skills initiative), TOWES is able to provide no-cost Essential Skills (ES) services to employers. This allows organizations to integrate ES approaches for training, hiring and succession planning.

With Immigrant Services Calgary, TOWES will build off of the initial workshop to create a short training session targeting the specific skills required of the organization’s different service areas, ultimately to help employees increase ES levels relative to their on-the-job demands. This will allow Immigrant Services Calgary to add an additional level of competency to their service delivery model.

Immigrant Services Calgary is committed to learning more about Essential Skills and how an ES approach will benefit not only their organizational structure, but the clientele that they serve.

Are you in the Calgary area?

Watch for a special offer from TOWES in your local newspapers tomorrow (Thursday March 25^th). We are part of an exciting initiative, Essential Skills Workplace Services (ESWS);  a project that allows us to offer local area employers up to 28 days of no cost Essential Skills consulting services for their staff.

Look for the ad in the following local publications:

• Calgary Herald
• Calgary Sun
• 24 Hours
• Metro

If you are interested in this opportunity please contact us.

Training stuck in neutral?

Switch gears with NO COST Workplace Essential Skills consulting.

Until June 1st, 2010 the TOWES Department at Bow Valley College is offering local area employers up to 28 days of no cost Essential Skills consulting services for their staff through the Essential Skills Workplace Services (ESWS) project funded by Human Resources and Skills Development Canada (HRSDC).

Essential Skills are the basic or foundational skills that people use at work and in daily life.  Some of the nine Essential Skills are:

• Reading text                         • Numeracy

• Using documents                 • Oral communication

Essential Skills are used in some way in every occupation. Adequate levels of Essential Skills enable workers to learn new technical skills, adapt to workplace change or new processes and lead to increased safety and productivity in the workplace.

Let the TOWES department at Bow Valley College use its expertise in Essential Skills to help your business complete a customized Essential Skills Integration through services such as awareness sessions, needs assessment and analysis, training action planning , HR or Leadership consultations and more.

Contact the TOWES department today at 403-410-3200 or email us at towes@bowvalleycollege.ca for more information.

*This opportunity is only available to employers in Alberta…Not from Alberta? Stay tuned to the TOWES Times for upcoming Essential Skills opportunities.