SME Employee Skills Upgrading

We are pleased to present the first of several webinars that will focus on the human resource challenges that chambers and their members face today. We encourage you to forward this event invitation to your member businesses so they can take advantage of the valuable information. Our first webinar will focus on SME Employee Skills Upgrading. This webinar will take place on Thursday, March 28, 2012 from 1:00 to 2:00 p.m. EDT. The fastest way to improve your business’ productivity is to grow your employees’ skill sets. Targeted at small- and medium-sized businesses, participants will learn how essential skills in the workplace can make a difference and how to find the skills upgrading support they need. This webinar will feature the following topics: 1. Essential skills, productivity and competitiveness: the Canadian imperative Presenter: T. Scott Murray, DataAngel Policy Research Inc. 2. My employees don’t have the essential skills they need! So what? Now what? Presenter: Janet Lane, Literacy Alberta 3. Practical solutions for your business Presenter: Lindsey McIntosh, Office of Literacy and Essential Skills, Human Resources and Skills Development Canada There is no cost for participation and as we have designed our program to fit busy business schedules, the entire webinar will last one hour. Spaces for this webinar are limited. We ask participants to pre-register by clicking here.