Ensure the long-term success of your training

Lasting, sustainable results from workplace literacy training take time to achieve. There is no quick fix. 

The key to achieving ongoing success with workplace literacy is commitment. It’s vital to keep your training alive and effective to deliver lasting results.

Make it sustainable

Like any other training, for literacy training to be truly effective, it must be sustainable. This applies whether you're just starting your training programme, you’re part way through, or you've completed your programme. And sustainability means the intent to develop programmes that work, as well as ones that are easy to carry forward. If yours is a one-off endeavour you may see immediate improvements but these may not translate into sustained benefits.

Make it business as usual

As other businesses have found, you’ll need to continuously improve and adapt your training to fit your needs. In time, this leads to your training being integrated into your other workplace training. That’s when it becomes business as usual and can deliver the best long-term results.

More help

Many employers around the country are already taking the next steps with their workplace literacy training. Industry Training Organisations (ITOs) are also developing industry-specific strategies to help businesses achieve long-term success from their training. There are a number of ways you can get help:

• Take advantage of practical advice and guidelines on how to build long-term success for your training. See the practical steps to improve workplace literacy training.
• Some of New Zealand’s leading businesses are well on the way with workplace literacy training, and they're part of the Skills Highway Employer Champions Forum. They’ve seen the results and are committed. Find out who the employer champions are and learn from their experience.
• More help from workplace literacy partners is available to help you achieve results.
• The Skills Highway Award recognises businesses that have achieved success in workplace literacy training. Find out what previous winners have done.
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