Effective Workplace Training:

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• Effective Workplace Training
• Addressing the Needs of Your Employees

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• American businesses lose more than 60 billion in
  productivity each year due to their employees
  lack of basic skills.
• Americas 60 Billion Problem, Training Magazine,
  Dannah Baynton, May 2001

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Effective Training Programs

• Step 1 Establish a Training Team
• Who has a vested interest in the issue you are
  trying to solve?

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Effective Training Programs

• Step 2 Assess your Needs
• Figure out what the problem is before you try to
  solve it!
• Is training the solution?

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Effective Training Programs

• Step 2 Secure your Foundation
• --Assess yourself
• What are your strengths/opportunities?
• --Assess your workforce
• What are their strengths/opportunities?

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Assessment Tools

• Foundation Skills Self-Appraisal
• Foundation Skills Wheel

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Effective Training Programs

• Step 3 Develop a Training Plan
• You will need a map to determine where you are
  going or you may end up somewhere else!

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Effective Training Programs

• Step 3 Consider all Components
• Needs Analysis
• Customized Curriculum
• Instruction
• Evaluation
• Follow-Up

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PA WIN Support

• Program Expertise
• Funding Access

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PA WIN Local Contacts

• Your Name, Your Agency
• Wendy McDowell,
• Workforce Education Research Center, Pennsylvania
  State University,
• Institute for the Study of Adult Literacy
• 814-865-6472 and/or klh267_at_psu.edu