| Websites - Events
NATCON 2009: National Consultation on Career Development and Workforce Learning
(January 19-21, 2009: Toronto)
This major conference will bring together over 500 leaders representing business, labor, practitioners and policy makers from across Canada to address the latest in career development and workforce learning issues.
(http:www.natcon.org)
Websites - Reports
Reach Higher, America: Overcoming Crisis in the U.S. Workforce, a report by the National Commission on Adult Literacy, presents powerful evidence that our failure to address America's adult education and workforce skills needs is putting our country in great jeopardy and threatening our nation's standard of living and economic viability.
(http://www.nationalcommissiononadultliteracy.org/report.html)
Websites - General
Strengthening State Adult Education Policies for Low-Skilled Workers is a brief report outlining state adult education policies and programs. It recommends improvements for better job advancement opportunities for lower-skilled adults and older youth.
(http://www.clasp.org/publications/policy_brief_-_adult_education_2_.pdf)
The U.S. Department of Labor's Senior Community Service Employment Program competitively awards funds to pilot programs designed to benefit older workers.
(http://www.doleta.gov/seniors)
Workplace Education: Twenty State Perspectives is a new paper describing various aspects of current workplace education programs in 20 states. Prepared for the National Commission on Adult Literacy, it examines inputs and outcomes of the programs, strategic plans and future policy options.
(http://www.nationalcommissiononadultliteracy.org/pandp.html)
A new report by the Migration Policy Institute identifies English acquisition as a serious challenge for both legal and illegal immigrants. Businesses are encouraged to invest more on English instruction as a way of improving workforce capacity. (http://www.migrationpolicy.org/pubs/NCIIP_English_Instruction073107.pdf)
ISO standards help to ensure processing quality, safety, reliability, efficiency and interchangeability in the delivery of goods and services. The widespread adoption of International Standards means that suppliers can base the development of their products and services on specifications that have wide acceptance in their sectors.
Congress Receives Annual Report on Adult Education Performance: A report from the Task Force on Workforce Development, Learning Partnerships: Strengthening American Jobs in the Global Economy, proposes "bottom-up partnerships" of government, educators, labor leaders, and employers to analyze job opportunities and workforce needs, and to develop effective training.
U.S.
Department of Education
American
Society for Training and Development
ROInet
: An online discussion group of human resource development professionals
interested in evaluating the effectiveness of workplace education
The
Evaluation and Return on Investment Online Learning Community of
the American Society for Training and Development
CareerOneStop
: A resource
for job-seekers and businesses
Foundation
Skills Site (PA)
Workforce
Improvement Network (PA)
Ilinois
Skill Standards
CAELA
offers a digest on planning, implementing and evaluating workplace
ESL programs.
Grants.gov
What
Works Clearinghouse provides educators, policymakers,
researchers, and the public with evidence of what works in education.
Business
Value Assessment toolkit helps education practitioners
and their employer partners assess the business value of their workforce
services.
Workforce3 One
A new collaborative effort between the US Department of Labor/Employment and Training Administration (ETA), the Center for Employment Security Education and Research (CESER), which is the 501c3 affiliate of the National Association of State Workforce Agencies (NASWA), and the National Association of Workforce Boards (NAWB). This collaboration represents the merging of national, state, and local leadership into one system that is committed to embracing and installing a demand-driven culture in the publicly funded workforce system.
Websites - Balanced
Scorecard
The Balanced Scorecard Institute
An independent source of information on applications of the balanced
scorecard to the public sector.
Balanced
Scorecard Collaborative
education, training, advisory, research, and development organization
that facilitates the worldwide awareness, use, enhancement, and
integrity of the Balanced Scorecard.
Corporater
Balanced Scorecard
Java based Balanced Scorecard developed according to specifications
given by Balanced Scorecard Collaborative BSCOL.
Free
Balanced Scorecard Software - Dialog Strategy
Define your business strategy, assign measures and monitor your
business performance. Based on the Balanced Scorecard approach to
Strategic Management.
Balanced
Scorecard Collaborative, Inc.
Dedicated to the worldwide awareness, use, enhancement, and integrity
of the Balanced Scorecard as a value-added management process.
Balanced
Scorecard - What Is BSC?
Translate strategy into action. An introduction to the Balanced
Scorecard, online example scorecards, presentations, White Papers,
and free software downloads.
SAS
Solution for Balanced Scorecard
Focuses on providing a strategic feedback system that enables you
to make better decisions.
Balanced
Scorecards For Implementing Strategy
How to use the balanced scorecard to implement strategy, focus people
on core objectives, reduce waste, and increase performance - without
massive investments in IT.
What
is the Balanced Scorecard?
What is the Balanced Scorecard? A new approach to ... The Balanced
Scorecard and Measurement-Based Management. The balanced scorecard
methodology ...
Balanced
Scorecard Software: PM-Express
Balanced Scorecards for your organization. Web-based, easy-to-use
solution. Flexible, configurable software with remote setup, collection,
reporting, and dynamic graphing. Needs no browser plug-ins, easy
to set up and manage.
Balanced
Scorecard Newswire
newsletter covering the Balance Scorecard approach to management.
Balanced
Scorecard of Performance Measures
The balanced scorecard concept, developed by Professor Robert Kaplan
of the Harvard Business School and David Norton, has been embraced
by a rapidly growing number of large corporations as a vehicle
BSC
& Knowledge Management
An independent source of information on applications of the balanced
scorecard to the public sector.
The
Balanced Scorecard for Government
helps government organizations and the military service use the
Norton Kaplan methodology.
Performance Management using the Balanced Scorecard
Guide explains the balanced scorecard methodology with special reference
to application in government. Contains seven chapters of detailed
information.
ActiveStrategy
provides enterprise strategy execution software to automate the
balanced scorecard management system as well as develop, implement,
deploy, and manage strategies.
2GC
focuses on improving organizational strategic management, strategic control and performance measurement. 2CG consultants deliver using a range of tools and techniques including the 3rd Generation Balanced Scorecard.
Websites - Workplace
Basic Skills
Route 21 provide an online interactive tool that demonstrates how 21st century skills can be supported through standards, professional development, assessments and curriculum and instruction.
(http://www.21stcenturyskills.org/route21/)
Programs in the Workplace: How to Increase Employer Support examines approaches to workplace literacy training in Canada that have proven effective in engaging employers in workplace literacy initiatives.
http://www.ccsd.ca/pubs/2007/literacy
Office
of Adult and Vocational Education –
Department of Education
WorkplaceBasicSkills.Com
LINCS
- Workforce Education Site
National
Institute for Literacy
Literacy
Directory
International
Adult Literacy Survey
Workplace
Basic Skills Network
List
of United States Literacy Organizations
Workplace Essential Skills and GED
Workplace
Literacy and Basic Skills
America’s
One-Stop System
Test
of Workplace Essential Skills
National
Center on Adult Literacy
Literacy.org
Bestimation is a report that looks at how imaginative use of calculators can enhance learning in adult numeracy classes. It suggests activities to develop estimation and problem-solving skills, providing learners with opportunities for self-directed learning.
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