Resources

Adaptability: Reacting to Change and Developing a Can-Do Attitude

This resource will provide learners with tools and tips on how to develop adaptability skills in the workplace and how to develop a can-do attitude.

Using Email Effectively in the Workplace

Learners will read about communicating effectively in a workplace email. They will compare two styles of email and reflect on the effectiveness of each. As a final task they will compose a workplace email using a mock workplace scenario and details.

Using Forms in the Workplace

This resource is best provided to learners as a digital MS Word document. Learners will be introduced to workplace forms and practice filling out an employee information form (fillable Word doc0. Then they will read a workplace incident and fill out a workplace incident form. Marking guide is included at the end.

Observing and Notetaking in the Workplace

Learners compare two short videos related to automobile repair services. They record their observations to prove their understanding of the importance of accurate workplace note-taking. Marking guide is also included at the end. 

Two videos are included with this resource and must be saved and provided to the learner.

Distribution Centres

This series of Skills for Success Curriculum Resources can be used as a supplement to the Material Handler resource published by Community Literacy of Ontario (CLO) based on curriculum developed by Literacy Link Eastern Ontario (LLEO) in 2012. It is not an adaptation of that material but rather an addendum focusing on five identified Skills for Success competencies: Problem Solving, Adaptability, Creativity & Innovation, Collaboration, and Communication.

These resources are learner-based and activity-focused, moving the learner through on-the-job “scenarios” they will then respond to. By participating in the activities, the learner will gain an understanding of the workplace challenges that might require them to use a given competency and its associated strategies.

Practitioners may be required to assist learners by reading the activities.

The series is divided into five sections that can be used separately or in tandem:

1. Skills for Success in the Workplace: Distribution Centres – Problem Solving

2. Skills for Success in the Workplace: Distribution Centres – Adaptability

3. Skills for Success in the Workplace: Distribution Centres – Collaboration

4. Skills for Success in the Workplace: Distribution Centres – Communication

5. Skills for Success in the Workplace: Distribution Centres – Creativity & Innovation

Exploring Employment as a Greenhouse Worker

Exploring Employment as a Greenhouse Worker will help adult learners enrolled in Ontario’s Literacy and Basic Skills (LBS) program who are interested in learning more about becoming greenhouse workers. 

Exploring Employment as a Greenhouse Worker provides an overview of the hard and soft skills needed to work as a greenhouse worker. This resource embeds the Government of Canada’s Skills for Success model. Embedded tasks and the Supporting Activity align with the Ontario Adult Literacy Curriculum Framework and have been designed for learners with Level 2 skills

Introduction to Employment Services

Are you currently searching for a job? Are you looking for guidance, advice, or support?

There are many resources available to you through Employment Services. Employment Services refers to organizations that help job-seekers find work. There are many different types of Employment Services:

• Government of Canada Job Bank service

• provincial services like Employment Ontario

• local employment centres in municipalities across Canada

• private employment service providers

Employment Services do much more than list job openings. These organizations help job-seekers in many ways, by:

• sharing up-to-date job openings across the country

• explaining the training needed to do certain jobs

• helping to arrange training and apprenticeships

• providing support and guidance from employment counsellors

• arranging financial support to help with educational costs

• answering questions and giving advice

Preparing for Safe Food Handling Training

Are you interested in working at a job that involves producing or selling food?

Jobs like these are part of the food service industry. Foodservice is a big part of the economy in Canada. There are thousands of jobs in the food service industry.

You might find a food service job at:

• restaurants and cafés

• fast food and takeout places

• supermarkets

• convenience stores

• delis, butchers, and bakeries

• factories that process food

• banquet halls and special vendors

The rules around working in the food service industry have changed. Employers now often require food service workers to have safe food handling training.

Jobs that might require safe food handling training include:

• chef or cook

• fast food fry cook or grill cook

• supermarket worker

• baker

• butcher

• factory work in a factory that processes food