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What are your Challenges?

As an employer, you may face challenges in designing, running or evaluating a workplace literacy or basic skills program. Click on a challenge below to see advice and information on taking action and finding the expert help you may need to overcome the challenges to improving worker literacy and basic skills.

If your organization is considering or starting up a workplace literacy or basic skills program, you may be struggling with "Big Picture" or strategic level issues.

If your organization already has a workplace literacy or basic skills program, you may be struggling with "Nuts and Bolts" or operational level issues.

You can also find provincial and regional resources by using the map of Canada.

Big Picture Challenges (Strategic Level issues)

1

The Long Haul

management, supervisors and workers may expect a "quick fix"

2

Why bother?

the benefits of investing in training are unknown or unclear

Nuts & Bolts Challenges (Operational Level issues)

3 No Time not enough time to design or run a program
4 No Money not enough funding available to start or run a program

5

Scheduling

difficult to set up a training schedule that fits with work schedules

6

Did it work?

difficult to find useful measures of training success and Return on Investment

Click on a Challenge above to see potential Solutions for that Challenge. Select more than one Challenge and customize a combination Solution for your organization.

Based on a recent national study by The Conference Board of Canada, these are the top Challenges faced by employers.

Breaching the Barriers to Workplace Literacy (PDF)
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Strength from Within: Overcoming the Barriers to Workplace Literacy Development (PDF)
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Solution Tree Framework (PDF, 171 KB)