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 WORKPLACE TRAINING

Workplace training is important in today's knowledge-based economy.
Workplace training is necessary to help employees develop and use the skills
they need to adapt to changing workplace needs, to promote innovation and
to help employers remain competitive in the global marketplace.

METHODS OF WORKPLACE TRAINING

There are a wide variety of methods available to support workplace training.
Some of these include: Classroom, Mentoring, Internships, Coaching.

CLASSROOMS

Most of you are familiar with the traditional face-to-face method of training and learning
given in a classroom or seminar. It is the oldest method for delivering training and in
today’s marketplace is the least effective. In classical training delivery, learners and the
instructor are present at the same time. Face-to-face experience provides the trainer and
participant with immediate feedback. It enables participants to discuss and share ideas
with others in the classroom or seminar. The trainer presents materials, manages and
guides discussion; responsibly ensuring that learning is constructive and positive.
Traditional classroom delivery is thus termed teacher centric: an approach to training
that gives the teacher control over learning. 

CCS has developed a cost effective system of giving the control to the learner and
not the education system. The cost of holding classroom sessions and registration
with the Ministry of Training Colleges and Universities is high and has limitations
in delivery methods. The cost is also high for students when they have to travel
or attend classroom sessions when they need to be employed with either part-time
or full time work. Today’s average learner is managing two part-time jobs to realize
the benefits of full employment.

Traditional Classroom Drawbacks

A commonly cited disadvantage of classroom training is determining an appropriate
pace of training and learning. Learner groups are often heterogeneous, made up of
both experienced and inexperienced staff, among whom there are fast and slow
learners.

Lectures are typically oriented to the slowest learner, ensuring the inclusion of
every participant, but resulting in a lack of challenge for many attending. Interaction is 
rarely mandatory, so classroom participants sometimes sit passively, failing to maximize
their classroom involvement. Valuable staff time and motivation can be lost this way.

As companies globalize, and the need to share information increases, traditional
classroom training delivery is rendered less viable and cost effective.

CONCEPT OF COMMUNITY

The concept of community and participatory development is important to working at CCS.
Community has always been thought of as a geographic area with members that had little
more in common than where they resided. Traditional institutions, the Town Hall, the
Church, the School, the Hospital, no longer suffice, and the alternative outlets and
venues for congregation and self-expression are the Coffee-Shops and the Internet.
Creativity is an effective means of exchanging thoughts, language and the spirit of
community. The dynamic resources within a community are often overlooked and
in similar fashion the great potential and enthusiasm for change is disregarded,
without the major contributor to the community life force, creativity.

The new appreciation of the community, and its untapped creative resources,
encouraged the proliferation of independent and governmental organizations
working in community development. Creativity is embraced as an important
vehicle in the process of development, where a community could come into
its own through unmitigated, creative self-expression.

CREATIVITY

Creative approaches to community development are essential, requiring the
ability to solve problems progressively over time and apply previous knowledge
to rapidly changing situations. “The nurturing of creativity means finding ways of
helping people to create new and better ways of living and working together"

(Our Creative Diversity). With the Internet becoming an expanding forum for free
exchange, a public space open to all virtual communities, based on elective communities,
represent a major challenge to institutions operating within territorial boundaries.
With this in mind, CCS has developed the system of exchange of community
information through its web site. 

Community Care Solutions, an information source aimed at disseminating examples of
best practice and promoting cross-sector links among the fields of arts and culture,
health, business, environment, regeneration and community development.

The organizations, governments, and individuals chosen to be featured, exemplify the
range of projects working in cross-sector community development. CCS provides a
virtual forum for the sharing of creative ideas and experiences among teachers, artists,
community and voluntary groups, policy makers, training providers, corporate leaders
and others who have an interest in understanding and promoting creativity in different
settings.

CCS reviews unique and innovative organizations and projects working all over the
world. Different in size, implementation and setting, the selected initiatives are
characterized by the use of creativity, and by the novel ways in which they apply
knowledge and skills to tackle contemporary problems.

The projects reviewed feature one or more of the following themes:

1. Promoting creativity and cultural heritage

2. Developing human aptitudes

3. Safeguarding creative freedom

4. Promoting participation

5. Encouraging a sense of community

6. Building the future

CCS is a work in progress, and is always interested in expanding the database by
including new, innovative projects. If you are interested in applying to be featured on
the CCS Website, please send the necessary details of your organization to:
info@creative.on.ca.

CCS Centre for Creative Community Care Solutions will post projects that are linked
to each other, through the use of creativity as a vehicle to promote the development
of skills, and as a tool in the building of inclusive communities.

They include:

Interest Fields

WORK PLACE Development

Education and Training

INTERNSHIPS AND COMMUNITY WORK PLACEMENTS