TOOLS TO BUILD YOUR ORGANIZATION'S ESSENTIAL SKILLS
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Essential Skills Profiles
Access a wealth of information and learn about 350 occupations within the Essential Skills framework
Organizational Needs Assessment
Determine the essential skills gaps in your organization
Problem Solved! - Guide for Employers
Helps employers build and integrate problem solving skill
Taking Action - Introduction
An overview of how to introduce training to your organization
Taking Action - Guide
A step-by-step guide for training your employees
Workplace Survey
Identify potential essential skills issues or areas of strength
Workplace Checkup 
Gather useful employee feedback on essential skills
Hiring Checklist
Structure hiring interviews to determine candidates' essential skills
Training Activities
Activities that help build essential skills through training
Mentoring
Helps support essential skills development through mentoring
Job Enhancement
Helps support develoment of essential skills through job enhancement
Essential Skills Interview Assistant
A tool to improve interviewing techniques and process
Communications Essentials - a modular workshop
A flexible modular curriculum for a one-day workshop 
TOWES - Test of Workplace Essential Skills
TOWES is testing and training that uses workplace documents to accurately measure three essential skill. It is the sole property of Bow Valley College and is sold through authorized distributors only.