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WORKFORCE
EDUCATION
TRAINING
AND DEVELOPMENT DIVISION
For
a FREE training consultation call 1-888-854-8200
Diane
Bronson Young, CEO and HR Director: Diane Young brings over
ten years of success in literacy and numeracy training and
program facilitation across Canada and the United States.
The diversity of the workforces including -- city workers,
fish plant employees, hotel/motel workers, auto part producers,
printing company workers and hospital workers -- indicates
the breadth of this experience. We work with companies interested
in setting up educational upgrading programs for their workforce
as well as training organizations to offer this service to
companies.
BASIC
EDUCATION UPGRADING
- workplace
literacy
- workplace
numeracy
- workplace
science
ENGLISH
SECOND LANGUAGE
TRAIN
THE TRAINER
- training
employees to become in-house trainers
WHMIS
- Workplace Hazardous Materials Information System
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EMPLOYEE
PORTFOLIO ENHANCEMENT
- Life
Skills
- Customer
Service
- Communication
Skills
- Report
writing
CLEAR
WRITING
- training
management, staff and employees to write or rewrite company
documentation in clear language
PROGRAM
DEVELOPMENT
- marketing
- presentations
- recruiting
- assessments
- linking
local resources
- reporting
- training
project leaders
HEALTH
AND SAFTEY
Two
of our staff members are registered WHMIS (Workplace Hazardous
Materials Information System) trainers with IAPA (Industrial
Accident Prevention Association).
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The
Right To Know
You and your workers have the right to know what
hazards and dangers you are working with. Only with knowledge
can you work safely. You must be able to identify the hazard
and understand the correct methods, equipment and procedures
in handling the hazard. Safety of the worker and the worksite
must be first and foremost to have a productive workplace.
At
JFYI, we customize the training to meet your needs. Training
includes:
- WHMIS
- labels
- Material
Safety Data Sheets (MSDS)
- Legislation
- Health
and Safety
Recent
Technical Papers given by our staff are available on request:
ISO 9000 and Health and Safety
Industrial Accident Prevention Association, Burlington
ON September 1995
PROJECT
MANAGEMENT
- facilitating
- training
- maintenance
- corporate
and individual needs assessments
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COMPUTER
TRAINING
- Computer
literacy
- MS-DOS,
MS Windows
- Word
Perfect
- Microsoft
applications, Microsoft Windows '95
- Microsoft
Office
- Lotus
123
- Corel
Draw 6.0
INTERNET
SOFTWARE TRAINING
WORLD
WIDE WEB DESIGN
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Training
References:
Laubach Literacy of Canada - Bedford PQ
A. M. Integrity Services - Chardon OH
Testimonials:
"... we got our people to the door of opportunities"
National Sea Products - Lunenburg NS
"...
there was a lot of positive feedback from employees throughout
the plant"
"... the program was professionally organized and the
results were immediate"
"... attitudes and morale of employees improved dramatically"
Quebecor Printing Canada
"...
employees involved in the program also became interested and
motivated to take part in other sponsored programs"
City of Kitchener ON
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Technical
papers given by our staff are available on request:
1.
Workplace Literacy: Making Your Quality System Work Better
Niagara Business Show, St. Catharines Chamber of Commerce,
St. Catharines ON, October 1996
2.
Workforce Literacy Training and Quality Assurance Systems
Workplace Learning: The Strategic Advantage, Univ. Of
Wisconsin, Milwaukee WI, April 1996
3.
Workplace Literacy - The Road to Empowerment
1995 LVA Conference, Buffalo NY, October 1995
4.
Integrating Literacy and Numeracy Programs in an ISO 9000
Training Plan
Laubach Literacy Action, Biennial Conference, Little Rock
AR - June 1994
5.
Setting Standards: Preparing Tutors and Materials to Provide
Literacy Programs that Meet Changing Workplace Requirements"
part of Quality Control and Workplace Literacy Programs
chaired by Jorie W. Philippi - International Reading
Association - May, 1991 Las Vegas Nevada
John
and Diane Young have co-authored a chapter "Workplace
Literacy - The Road to Quality Improvement" in a
book published in 1997. The book entitled "Workplace
Education The Changing Landscape " includes chapters
written by some of the current Canadian experts in the field
of workplace literacy.
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