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Reframing Manitoba's Workforce: Uncovering Hidden Skills

Posted by: on Thu, 09/16/2010 - 11:23
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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.

Reframing Manitoba’s Workplace: Uncovering Hidden Skills provided Manitoba’s decision-makers and influencers with a full day of practical and inspiring RPL-based strategies.

The morning's featured speakers included:

    * Dr. Peter Senge,  (Click here to watch video)
    * Sandi Howell, Provincial Coordinator for RPL in Manitoba (download video here)
    * Janice Harper, VP of Human Resources at New Flyer Industries (click here to watch video)

Afternoon workshops included presentations from:

    * Ken Czernicki, Apprenticeship Manitoba
    * Ricky Lawrence, New Flyer
    * Rosalie Olson, Dynamic Resource Management
    * Cheryl Lavallee, Employment Manitoba + Susy Komishin, Indian and Northern Affairs Canada
    * Dr. Robin Millar, Centre for Education and Work
    * Marlene Gogal, Evolve Consulting
    * Don Presant, learning agents inc.
    * Phyllis Mann, Workplace Education Manitoba + Linda Maxwell, Keystone Adult Education Services Inc.
    * Sherry Sullivan, Winnipeg Technical College
    * Roseanne Zulak, Employment Solutions for Immigrant Youth

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.

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