Getting Started

• Develop a profile of the organisation over the lifetime of the programme

- Worked example of company profile

• Engage the workplace champion
• Make business case for workplace basic skills provision

- See the Employer Toolkit

- CBI Guide for Employers - Brushing up the basics

- CBI Guide for Employers - Tackling low skills: finding the right approach

- Investors in People and LLN – an interview with Peter Russian, Director of Development, Investors in People UK

- See also the Conference Board of Canada’s Workplace Literacy Central website

- See also this report on benefits of workplace literacy programmes for New Zealand employers - Voices from Management

• Make a presentation to named contact in organisation, including causes of poor Language, Literacy and Numeracy

- Guidelines on making presentations to managers

- See the Employer Toolkit for presentation materials

• Find out the union’s policy for supporting employee learning and development
• Choose a training provider

- The Network has developed a checklist for use by employers when choosing a provider for workplace language, literacy and numeracy training.

- LSC Guide to training providers