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.
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.
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.
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?
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