Workplace Education Manitoba has been contracted by the Government of Canada build capacity across Canada in the area of customized workplace training. More specifically within the Relational Skills cluster of the Skills for Success framework. This is to address the need for skills to support areas including but not exclusive to diversity and inclusivity, staff retention, teamwork, staff and workplace mental health, safety, productivity, social capital, and customer service.
This project provides a comprehensive plan for Pan-Canadian solutions to address workforce challenges of Canadian workers and employers. This response will create increased capacity for Skills for Success Workplace delivery across Canada – including engagement, needs assessment, delivery response, and evaluation. Increased Skills for Success competency will provide foundational support to sustainability, scalability and consistency of delivery and outcomes for the workplaces.
The goal is to train 120 facilitators across Canada over the next 4 years with implementation of this training into at least 60 workplaces. Each project with attached evaluation strategies to measure skill gain and impact to the workplaces.
The leadership and mentorship within the project is key to its success.
The scope of work includes:
- Project Management support
- Leadership/direction of team
- Relational Skills content expertise
- Workplace training expertise that will provide direction for relevant and appropriate program development and implementation
- Workplace engagement expertise in relation to Essential Skills or Relational Skills
- Quality Assurance system development in support of training initiatives, experience with workplace training a preference
- Project Management experience in relation to Training initiatives
- Evaluation program development, experience with workplace training a preference
- Curriculum development in the areas of Relational Skills, Essential Skills or relevant field of practice
- Mentorship or development of facilitators or trainers, with preference to workplace training, Essential Skills training or Relational Skills training
- Online training development including transfer of face to face content to online
