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Working to Learn EBook - Travailler pour apprendre Ebook

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Chapter 2: Introduction: The Working to Learn EBook

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Welcome

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Nicholas Ahrens Graduate Red River College, Digital Multimedia

The Working to Learn EBook

The Working to Learn EBook shows the importance of using Essential Skills in the workplace. Canadian employers often observe that new graduates from Canadian colleges possess excellent technical and vocational skills related to the performance of their jobs. They further observe that new graduates often lack the workplace skills that make them successful in their jobs and in the work place. These workplace skills are called Essential Skills.

The Working to Learn EBook highlights four Essential Skills: Oral Communication; Working with Others; Continuous Learning; and Thinking Skills, and their application to the workplace.

The Canadian government has identified nine Essential Skills that people need for success in the workplace. They are:

Reading text, Document use, Writing, Numeracy, Oral Communication, Thinking Skills, Working with Others, Computer Use and Continuous Learning.

Each Essential Skill has a number of sub-skills. By learning more about these skills and their sub-skills you can identify your own level of skills, and learn how to improve them. Knowing how to describe and demonstrate your skills is an asset in applying for and advancing your employment. Employers require these skills.

An Interview with CEW Executive Director, Robin Millar

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Listen and learn how the CEW uses the Essential Skills at work.

Essential Skills Everyday

Essential Skills are found in the workplace, but they are also an important part of everyday life. Everyday activities, such as getting ready for school, participating in sports, or preparing a meal use Essential Skills.

For example, you might start your day by getting up to the sound of your alarm clock buzzer going off. You shower and head for the kitchen. Toast or cereal? Gulp down some coffee, grab your backpack and race outside to catch the bus. Get into class just as the start of class buzzer goes off.

Did you know that by the time you are sitting down to your first class you have used many different basic Essential Skills to help you get there?

What are some of these Essential Skills? Well, you used time management skills, when you allowed yourself enough time to get to school before the first bell. You used decision making skills in determining what to eat for breakfast. And, you used organizational skills when you got your backpack ready the night before.

Workplace Essential Skills are not that much different. But knowing what they are and using them well can make the difference in your success at work.

Getting Up in the Morning

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Oral Communication Skills

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Oral Communication
The Government of Canada defines Oral Communication skills in the workplace in the following way: Oral Communication pertains primarily to the use of speech to give and exchange thoughts and information by workers in an occupational group.

Communication Breakdown

This clip is a memory device, chosen to reinforce the importance of oral communication as an important skill. Uploaded to YouTube by Sonicat

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Working with Others
Human Resources and Social Development Canada defines the workplace skill of Working with Others in the following way: Working with Others examines the extent to which employees work with others to carry out their tasks. Do they have to work co-operatively with others? Do they have to have the self-discipline to meet work targets while working alone?

Working with Others

This clip is a memory device to help you think about the importance of working with others. Uploaded to YouTube by Maverick51883

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Continuous Learning
Human Resources and Social Development Canada defines the workplace skill of Continuous Learning in the following way: Continuous Learning examines the requirement for workers in an occupational group to participate in an ongoing process of acquiring skills and knowledge. Continuous Learning tests the hypothesis that more and more jobs require continuous upgrading, and that all workers must continue learning in order to keep or to grow with their jobs. If this is true, then the following will become essential skills: knowing how to learn; understanding one's own learning style; and knowing how to gain access to a variety of materials, resources and learning opportunities.

The Art of Learning

In this clip, Josh Waitzkin, Chess and Martial Arts champion, talks about continuous learning from a very personal perspective. This video, uploaded to YouTube by hbkfilms, is long but interesting.

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Thinking Skills
One Essential Skill we will look at is the workplace skill of Thinking, and its sub-skills. The workplace requires specific types of Thinking Skills. Human Resources and Social Development Canada defines using Thinking Skills in the workplace as follows: Thinking Skills differentiates between five different types of cognitive functions. However, these functions are interconnected. The five Thinking Skills Sub-skills are: Decision Making, Finding Information, Problem Solving, Critical Thinking, Job Task Planning and Organizing We will be looking at all of these workplace Thinking Skills sub-skills throughout this case study.

Conclusion

The next three chapters of the Working to Learn EBook are case studies that demonstrate the Essential Skills of Oral Communication, Working with Others, Continuous Learning, and Thinking Skills in the workplace. At the end of the Ebook, you can take an Essential Workplace Skills Self-Assessment, to assess your own level of workplace Essential Skills.

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Chapter 3: Tyrone's Dilemma - Thinking and Oral Communication Skills »

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Jan 11, 2011 9:55 PM
Nicky McKinney
Ha ha!! Love the Get up in the morning video, that was so me this morning. Robin's interview was very intelligible and resourceful, I got a lot of information from there.
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Jan 11, 2011 10:14 PM
Pamela Davis
thought the interview with josh was interesting...looked at the website looks informational
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Jan 11, 2011 10:26 PM
cathy spence
can relate to the Get up in the morning video. Most of the time I feel like that.
Robin's comments regarding the communication skills are essentia. You need to be able to know the different types of communication and how to apply them.
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Jan 11, 2011 10:31 PM
josephlangford
Nick's hair is messy and Robin is very informative.
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Jan 11, 2011 10:32 PM
josephlangford
Pain made Josh think in slow motion.
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Jan 11, 2011 10:52 PM
Jacqueline Esquash
Robin: lots of info, good points, agree with Cathy about being able to know the different types of skills and how to apply them but also how to recognize them
Josh: makes good points, long interview, didn't like the music, but was overall informative
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Jan 12, 2011 12:17 AM
melvin
robin's interview was ok she had information that we could use and she gave us an idea on what to expect. josh's video was very interesting and and i liked how he replied on being a prodigy. it look like he had a pretty interesting life..and i can relate to the person walking up.
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Jan 12, 2011 1:12 AM
wendy
nicholas' interview was short and to the point, as for Robin, she was very informative and thorough
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Jan 12, 2011 2:16 AM
Patrick Bruyere
Nice introduction, Robins Interview was full of useful information for not only the work place but everyday life, Followed by a good chuckle with Getting up in the morning.
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Jan 12, 2011 3:02 AM
Rick Smoke
As Robin Miller says, working and learning with each other and sharing info is most important.
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Jan 12, 2011 3:04 AM
Vern
was unable to view the youtube content, but found the interview with Josh interesting. I can personally relate to the way he transferred his skills, having studied the martial arts and by working my way through diverse technologies.
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Jan 12, 2011 3:37 AM
Sheldon Greene
These videos are great way to convey concepts by individuals that embody the principles and concepts of this program. Well done.

I think Josh Waitzkin is great example of someone who seems to understand that continuous learning and applying yourself in the way you have being taught can be used in multiple areas of your life.
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Jan 12, 2011 3:48 AM
melissa
enjoyed nicholas's video because it was like he was talking to you. Robin's informative. Website good information with a whole lot of links. The wake up video can so relate because thats what i need at times to get out of bed in the morning.
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Jan 12, 2011 4:10 AM
melissa
SO loved the Josh video now i have to go find the book!
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Jan 12, 2011 4:18 AM
Shane
makes me also want to read the book has alot of thought behind it all with whatever your doing it all can relate to something if you look more into it.
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Jan 12, 2011 5:10 AM
kelvin
must of been a good fight
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Jan 12, 2011 6:41 AM
TJ
Nicks short video sums up how easier it is to learn using Essential Skills, while Robin's video goes much more into detail on what to expect. Josh's video shows that even as you go through different experiences, there is always more to learn.
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Jan 12, 2011 12:20 PM
Richard
Very dry
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Jan 12, 2011 12:33 PM
Alice Commodore
Robin's video was very informative an goes into great detail on the different types of skills. Nicks video is short and right to the point. Josh's video show that there is always more to learn.
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Jan 12, 2011 3:09 PM
douglas
lol, that was me yesterday morning, minus the truck!
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Jan 12, 2011 6:28 PM
Stanford Roulette Jr.
it was helpful, helped to understand the way to think when working.
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Jan 12, 2011 7:51 PM
ronald
tai chi and chess something to look into
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Jan 12, 2011 10:51 PM
Brett
I feel for Josh although I have not been in that type of situation. I can understand how he felt about having fame, money and an ego at a young age. It almost reminds me of Britney Spears in that she was also a child star, except we all know what happened to her. The difference between him and her is that he foresaw what his life would be and made the decision to make a change before it was a bigger problem and in the process found something to focus on that made him happy.

He evolved and grew instead of staying in his situation. Kudo's!
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