Our very own Kaesy Russnak (TOWES Project Officer) will be facilitating a training session in Mozambique this October. Kaesy’s expertise in Essential Skills and his experience with facilitator, learner and test administrator training make him the ideal candidate to represent TOWES and BVC in this international development project. Kaesy will be facilitating this workshop alongside Denise Theunissen (BVC-Learner Success Services) and with the support of BVC’s International Education Department. This project is funded by the Canadian International Development Agency  and is part of the Association of Canadian Community Colleges Education for Employment program. Read The Current for more details.

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.

At TOWES, we sell most of our products through a Distributor network that spans across Canada.

Our distributors are always doing good work in the area of Essential Skills. Today we want to highlight the work of our Manitoba distributor, Workplace Education Manitoba.

WEM has recently created an excellent video series: Essential Skills – perspective, decision-making and the way forward. Check it out, and while you are there, take a couple minutes to complete a short on-line survey that asks: Who is incorporating workplace Essential Skills in their workplace and how; who isn’t and why; and what is still needed?

Tell us what do you think of WEM’s video series in the comments.