Alberta Workforce Essential Skills Society
Alberta Workforce Essential Skills Society (AWES) provides workplace training that supports all aspects of a workers’ career path. This includes training trainers, assessing skills, uncovering gaps, developing programming and evaluating the results of our essential skills training.
Our goal is simple: for workers to have the essential skills they need to fully participate in the workplace, in their communities, and in their personal lives.
- We provide fully customized, relevant training to your organization because we listen first to what you need
- We collaborate with employers and other partners
- We view essential skills training through the lens of the employer and the employee
- We know how essential skills can improve productivity, safety and the bottom line for employers
- We understand how essential skills can help workers attain and retain employment
- We develop a customized approach tailored to individuals and workplaces
Jobs at all levels continue to increase in complexity. This means workers need to continue to build on their essential skills to evolve with their jobs and adapt to an ever-changing workplace.
“A lot of our employees have never taken any formal presentation training and liked the fact that they were learning tools to make them into better speakers so that they didn’t become the kind of speaker that they didn’t enjoy listening to or learning from. We definitely would recommend this course to other companies.“
“The approach that AWES took was effective and has been utilized since. The practical and effective approach that AWES used prompted me to become more involved with the organization after the program concluded.”
AWES has developed some new materials for CLB 1-2 learners and we are heading out to various locations in Alberta to share these materials at a no-cost workshop. Link to flyer for Hinton and Grande Prairie Further locations will include: Calgary, Edmonton and Medicine Hat. …
Exciting training opportunity – no cost! This course is for immigrants who want to improve their language and workplace skills in food processing occupations. Click the following link for more information. AWES language and skills March 2019
In this three-day advanced essential skills workshop, you will practice the concepts you learned in the Introduction to Essential Skills. Participants will work with content to embed essential skills at the appropriate levels of complexity, allowing learners to increase their skills and transfer their knowledge. …
