Learning@Work Day - 17 May 2012

Aim of the day:

  • To engage adults in learning activity in the workplace to:
    • Promote the career benefits of being an active learner (developing existing skills and/or gaining new skills)
    • Promote the wider benefits of being an active learner both inside and outside         the workplace
  • To provide employers and employee representatives with an opportunity to celebrate existing, successful, work-based training initiatives at a local and national level

Ideas for events:

  • Job Swaps
  • Skills Sharing (getting staff with a particular skill to show others how to do it. Could be work-related or something more "fun")
  • Job Shadowing (great idea for those staff who have the potential to move into a new role but are nervous of taking the plunge)
  • Future Matters (this is a key theme for Learning@Work Day from the Campaign for Learning who run L@W Day in England)

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Presenting the case for Learning@Work Day

Time away from working can have a negative impact on a company's productivity. However, if that time is spent actively learning then the benefits to the workforce, productivity and profitability are many. 

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