GROW YOUR OWN TRAINING

An Employee Retention Strategy for
Saskatchewan Business

How are Training Workshops Developed?

We consult with you to gain an understanding of your business and explore how we might enhance your current training. One of the great advantages of partnering with Grow Your Own Training is our flexibility in adapting our training program to meet your needs. Generally, our programs address the following areas and content:

Employee Development Workshops

Workshops are designed to develop Workplace Essential Skills, including:

A Vecima participant reviewing program material during her session.

Learning Styles

• Employees identify their personal learning style to understand individual strengths.
• Employers can adapt in-house training such as staff orientation, safety protocols and equipment operation to capitalize on learning strengths.
• The session is based on the Theory of Multiple Intelligences.

Personality Styles

• Employees identify their personality style to increase self knowledge and awareness.
• Employers are able to identify employee strengths to improve teamwork and for future career development.

Values and Goals

• Employees learn to set achievable goals and develop specific action plans which promote self-motivation.
• Employers benefit through improved staff productivity.

Developing Career Goals

• Employees learn how to identify and match their skills and attributes to positions in your company for cross-training and advancement.
• Employers benefit from enhanced succession planning.

Stress Management

Vecima staff sharing information with the group during an employee development workshop.

• Employees learn techniques for effective stress management, to identify signs of stress and to develop effective coping strategies.
• Employers benefit from increased productivity.

Time Management

• Employees review their time management skills, develop organizational tools and practice time management techniques.
• Employers benefit from having better organized employees.

Understanding Workplace Culture

• Employees determine the difference between their personal style and workplace norms and discuss appropriate behaviors and attitudes.
• Employers benefit from having employees who understand their company objectives and culture.

Communication in the Workplace

• Employees learn their personal communication style, how to think win-win and respect others.
• Employers benefit by having clear communication in the worksite which has the potential to decrease accidents, increase understanding and enhance workplace productivity.

Assertiveness and Conflict Resolution

• Employees recognize how conflict is related to personal and workplace stressors and develop strategies to achieve positive solutions.
• Employers benefit by having employees who choose the most effective ways of resolving conflict.

Decision Making and Team Building

• Employees review the practical elements of decision making through a series of group activities.
• Employers benefit by having employees who understand the process of decision making, are more effective team members and are solution focused.

Portfolio Building

• The portfolio focuses on the strengths of the employee, the skills they have learned and their plan to achieve future goals.
• Employers benefit from employees that have developed and organized an up-to-date collection of materials related to performance evaluation and career building.

Lunch and Learn Series

Workshops can be delivered over the lunch hour to address personal and workplace topics generated by employees and employers. The sessions can be more informal and are likely voluntarily. Session topics can include:

Vecima employees using material in
the resource library in the Training Centre.

• Writing in the workplace
• Communicating by email
• Juggling the demands of family and work
• Getting and staying organized
• Organization in the workplace
• Budgeting
• Why do they act like that? Talking about teens
• Leading a Meeting
• Public speaking
• What is family literacy?
• Bullying

Workplace Literacy

Sessions support and enhance workplace and community literacy to promote the inclusion of workers who may be new to Canada or to support workers who might experience literacy challenges.

Employers and employees benefit from:

• Improved interaction and sense of camaraderie between employees
• Improved safety awareness
• Increased clarity in the workplace
• Increased appropriate responsiveness to oral and written directions
• Greater willingness to communicate in English at work and at home.

Facilitation Skills

These workshops are specifically designed to familiarize training staff and supervisors with adult learning principles and promising practices. This training has the potential to strengthen workplace teams allowing employers to reap the benefits of the Grow Your Own Training project into the future. Depending on the requirements of the workplace workshops can include:

Adult Learning

• Employees become aware of how the learning environment and teaching strategies support and enhance their learning opportunities.
• Employers learn the principles of adult learning and how to make certain that your training sessions are the best they can be.

Diversity in the Workplace

• Employees learn how culture and background of fellow employees both from other countries or other parts of Canada may affect the workplace.
• Employers benefit by having employees that are more tolerant of others and are more able to work together as a team.