Charting a Course: Responding to the Industry-Related
Adult Basic Education Needs of the Texas Workforce
Handbook One: Planning and Implementation Tips
for Program Planners and Administrators

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Module Two: Marketing Adult Education Services as Workforce Solutions

How Can Work-Related Instruction Benefit Your Company?

We are interested in helping you find appropriate educational solutions to your workforce-related needs. Your completion of this short survey will enable us to better understand your employees’ work-related instructional needs. We offer a variety of basic education services, including English for speakers of other languages and work-related reading, writing, math applications, employability / work readiness skills, and GED preparation. Please take a few minutes to review the list of outcomes below and check those of importance in your company’s workplace environment.

Educational services could benefit the company in the following ways:

• Improved attendance
• Better communication between workers and frontline supervisors
• Fewer accidents/safety violations
• Increased production
• Improved job retention/reduced turnover
• Increased opportunities for promotion
• Reduced scrap and waste
• Improved product/service quality
• Improved customer relations

Company employees would benefit from developing the following skills:

• Better communication with co-workers and supervisors
• Ability to communicate clearly with customers
• Participation in company meetings
• Ability to ask questions and reply appropriately
• Ability to apply basic computer literacy skills
• Ability to work as a team member
• Better understanding of the language & culture of the workplace

Describe specific work-related need(s) your company would like addressed:

 

 

 

 

 

Please return to ______________________________ via fax ____________________

or call ______________________________.

Source:  www.work-basedlearning.org/toolkit.cfm (2006)