Essential Skills Coaching

ESSENTIAL SKILLS COACHING FOR DOUGLAS COLLEGE STUDENTS

Douglas College students who wish to improve their workplace skills and readiness are invited to work with a Skills Coach. Face-to-face and online coaching options are available.

The Skills Coach assists learners on an individual basis to:

• Increase awareness and knowledge of Skills for Success
• Understand and use assessment results
• Build targeted skills to prepare for further education and training or employment

Research has demonstrated that improving one’s Skills for Success or Essential Skills levels. leads to improved workplace performance and job satisfaction.

Learning resources are paper or computer-based and provided in accordance with the student’s preference.

If you would like to know more about the theory behind some of the skill-building strategies watch this 15-minute video, featuring Michael Hardt.

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Douglas College students can connect with a Skills Coach by sending us an email to essentialskills@douglascollege.ca.