About Us

Beyond Manitoba

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.

About WPLAR

This site is brought to you by WPLAR Manitoba - business, labour and government partnering to oversee workplace RPL activities in Manitoba.  Since 2001, WPLAR Manitoba has overseen the development of Recognizing Prior Learning  (RPL) in the workplace.  WPLAR has been pleased to work with diverse stakeholders - employers, unions, industry groups, self-regulating professions, trainers, educators and other labour market partners – to  apply the principles and practices of RPL  to workforce solutions.  See our Success Stories.

WPLAR Steering Committee members are Wendell Wiebe; Graham Dowdell; Jim Dixon and  Jonas Sammons.