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Three elements needed for Work-based Learning

It’s important to analyze your company’s skills and knowledge needs prior to beginning a work-based learning initiative. A detailed analysis of how your employees actually deliver value and what they need to do so will drive solutions that provide the greatest impact for the fewest dollars

Derrin Kent has been training staff, at all levels from Director to groundsman, in the corporate sector since 1992. His company, The Development Manager, specializes in building work-based learning systems and corporate communities of practice using open-source technologies.

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Getting the Right Workers with the Right Skills

Posted by: jcote on Apr 18, 2011

Everybody needs the right people with the right skills.

So how can RPL be applied to help workplaces do the match?

For some employers, recognizing prior learning is part of their approach to managing people and skills.

It can be as simple as looking at a Mom returning to the workforce and seeing her extensive community involvement as relevant to leadership capabilities.

If All Real Knowing is Doing

Posted by: admin on Jan 14, 2011

All real knowing is doing – all doing is knowing. And if that’s the case, what's the potential for recognizing prior learning in the workplace?

Reframing Manitoba's Workforce: Uncovering Hidden Skills

Posted by: jcote on Sep 16, 2010

Workplace RPL conference highlights

In a rare Manitoba engagement, world-renowned author/lecturer Dr. Peter Senge (author of Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization) delivered the morning’s keynote address at a one-day conference on Recognizing Prior Learning (RPL) held at the Winnipeg Convention Centre on Dec 2nd, 2010. Click here for a link to Society of Organizational Learning.

Uncovering Hidden Skills in Your Workplace

Posted by: jcote on Apr 20, 2010

What’s waiting to be discovered in your workplace?

As the economic recovery continues, employers continue to be challenged by recruiting and retaining skills and talents. But do we know the skills, aptitudes and competencies already in our employ and how best to lever that existing resource?

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ReLaunching the Manitoba RPL Webpage

Posted by: admin on Mar 8, 2010

Welcome to the new RPL Manitoba website developed through Workplace Prior Learning and Assessment Manitoba.

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Applying RPL in Manitoba Workplaces

Posted by: admin on Dec 15, 2009

Recognizing prior learning appears to be a pragmatic approach to hiring and promoting employees in the workplace – but how can an employer ensure that the recognition is based on authentic skills and learning that can be objectively assessed?

It’s not a quick fix.

Peter Senge, the Learning Organization, and applying Recognizing Prior Learning (RPL) in Manitoba’s Workplaces

Posted by: admin on Dec 15, 2009

INDUSTRY CONFERENCE UPDATE

Reframing Manitoba's Workforce: Uncovering Hidden Skills featuring Dr. Peter Senge

December 2, 2010 at the Winnipeg Convention Centre

About Workplace Prior Learning Assessment and Recognition: WPLAR

WPLAR is business, labour and government partnering to oversee workplace PLAR activities in Manitoba. The WPLAR Committee was established by Manitoba Education, Training & Youth and its Industry Training Partnerships Branch in 2001.WPLAR is responsible for implementing and marketing Manitoba's approach to industry-based PLAR.Industry-based PLAR, post-secondary PLAR and community-based PLAR advisory services are the three cornerstones of the Manitoba government's commitment to PLAR.