Workready:
Personal Management Skills
Are you Workready? To get and to keep a job, a worker needs many skills. A worker needs to be able to:
- set goals
- make decisions
- think critically
- be self-confident
- manage time
- manage personal stress
- communicate effectively
- demonstrate positive work habits
In this online and web-based workshop, Workready, you will work on improving personal management skills. These skills are more important than some other jobrelated skills, which you can learn on the job. If you don't have good personal management skills, many employers won't hire you or they may not promote you.
In Workready, you will also improve your reading, writing, computer, and internet skills. These are also valuable work skills.
Each topic will be available for two weeks. You will read materials and respond to them online. As well, you will participate in discussions with other people taking Workready.
To participate in Workready, you need:
- access to a computer and printer (at home, at Literacy Plus, at the local library, or at a friend's)
- access to the Internet. You need to know how to find a website.
- an email account. You need to know how to send and receive emails with attachments.
Call the office to register.
Students with Computer Skills—Your Help is Needed...
You can be the first to try our new online, web-based workshops. Your comments and suggestions are essential to the project's success. We are looking for students with basic computer skills to participate in a trial-run of Workready online. If you have basic computer skills and want to help, please call Sue to sign up.
National Volunteer Week
April 17 to 23, 2005 is National Volunteer Week. It is a week set aside each year to acknowledge the time and energy contributed by Canada's 6.5 MILLION volunteers. (Source: Volunteer Canada)
Volunteers strengthen our communities. They aspire to make life better for others and we honour them for doing so.
From January 1 to December 31, 2004, 50 volunteers donated 2,197 hours to Literacy Plus, tutoring adults across Renfrew County and serving on Literacy Plus's board and committees. Literacy Plus volunteers also help with other important jobs like office work, evaluation and recording of resources and more.
The staff of Literacy Plus asks students and the community to join us in recognizing the tutors, Board members and other volunteers who share their valuable time and skills that make Literacy Plus the great program that it is. Thank you!
Praise to a human being represents what sunlight, water and soil are to a plant—the climate in which one grows best.