About
UP Skills for Work helps learners develop key employability and life skills through free workshops and downloadable workbooks. The topics align with the Skills for Success model and include:
- Skills for Work & Life
- Motivation
- Attitude
- Accountability
- Presentation
- Collaboration
- Time Management
- Adaptability
- Stress Management
- Reading
- Writing
- Numeracy
- Digital
- Problem Solving
- Confidence
- Communication
- Creativity and Innovation
The program is designed for flexible delivery in community learning centres, workplaces and homes to ensure that UP Skills for Work is accessible to everyone.
Introducing: Get Started Series
A new series of 10 workbooks with adapted content from the original UP Skills for Work series. These workbooks are written and designed specifically for adult learners at a grade 2-4 reading level.
Why are employability and life skills important?
Employability skills help workers to be adaptable and motivated throughout their whole employment and as they move into new roles or careers. Life skills are the foundational skills needed for learning and success in work and life. In other words, these skills lay the foundation for a strong and flexible workforce and for happy, fulfilled citizens.
How does the program work?
UP Skills for Work is all about what works for your learners. That means host organizations choose when and where workshops happen.
To participate, simply sign up online to host a workshop. your regional representative will be in touch to coordinate your Up Skills for Work workshops and ship all workshop materials directly to your organization. Download free softcopies of the workbooks.
Workshops are delivered by your staff and take approximately 60 to 90 minutes each. Up Skills for Work is completely introductory, so you don’t need to have a lot of knowledge on the topics to deliver workshops.
Who can run a workshop?
- Libraries
- First Nations centres
- Seniors centres
- ESL programs
- Colleges & universities
- Hospitals
- Parenting programs
- Employment centres
- Health centres
- High schools
- Youth support programs
- Disability support programs
- Workplaces
- … and more!
UP Skills for Work Steering Committee
We are so appreciative of the invaluable feedback and insight from the Steering Committee who is helping to develop the UP Skills for Work program:
Paul Brinkhurst, Futureworx
Olive Crane, Government of PEI
Christopher Hindle
Benjamin Lecker, Employment and Social Development Canada
Russell McNally, Canada Life
Rycke Miyalou, La Clé d’la Baie
Matthew Shulman, Peel-Halton-Dufferin Adult Learning Network
Ready to host a workshop?
Want to improve your employability and life skills?
Testimonials
“Thank you for producing such lovely and easy to use materials.” – Practitioner
“The materials were comprehensive and provided opportunities for interactive-style learning where participants were part of the process.” – Practitioner
“Many of the workshops we hosted for UP Skills for Work opened up the conversation about mental health and wellness, which I think is very important to take care of.” – Practitioner
See where we’re running our programs across Canada
This project is funded in part by the Government of Canada’s Adult Learning, Literacy & Essential Skills program.
