LRI supports communities and employers with consulting, programs, training and services that enhance the development, vitality and quality of life of organizations and communities. LRI resources enable communities to align the development of future and incumbent workers with the changing requirements of employers.
LRI's assessment and learning management systems enable those served by employers, WIBs, colleges and other employment and training organizations to credibly measure and document what an individual knows and can do on-the-job.
LRI's resources are used in support of:
- Pre-employment efforts
- Individuals in a training or development program
- Individuals starting a new job
- Recent hires having difficulty adjusting to the new workplace and/or their supervisors
- In some cases, clients involved with subsidized employment; and/or,
- Under-employed incumbent workers
LRI's expertise and resources enables customers to:
- Measure, develop and document individuals' effective workplace behaviors
- Create transcripts of peoples' high-performance or soft skills
- Support high skill/high wage programs
- Document and record life-long learning and competence by validating individuals' skills (both cognitive knowledge and their ability to perform skills on-the-job) using employer-defined standards
- Provide resources that enable organizations to integrate soft skills development into academic, technical and related programs
- Measure the effectiveness of workforce development programs. LRI's technology produces objective data on the extent to which individuals have acquired targeted soft skills
- Benchmark the soft skills required by employers
- Provide post-employment developmental resources that enable employers to address the needs of new hires and, thereby, reduce turnover
- Provide "life and work" portals that support organizations and workers - and give employers a competitive advantage
- Provide pro-active succession resources to build the skills of individuals who will move into higher level, more responsible and better paying jobs
LRI's assessment programs are summarized at Soft Skills Assessment Programs - Overview
The following identifies documents that describe specific ways that LRI resources support organization's people and their economic and workforce development efforts:
Improving Workforce Outcomes
Employers in every community share the same concerns about job applicants. Prospective employees responding to job orders typically arrive for interviews with little credible information as to the kind of worker they have been or will be.
Applicants' technical or academic skills are important, but they are not the source of employers' concern. An employer's requirement for effective job matching is credible and predictive evidence as to what kind of worker someone will be. Employers want to know how new workers will fit in - how they will behave on the job. LRI's soft skills assessment tools provide clear, valid and predictive information about peoples' workplace behaviors - and, how to develop better soft skills, when needed.
Skill Validation and Competency Management - Overview
LRI works with sectors, organizations and communities that seek greater effectiveness in developing future and incumbent workers. Frequently, these are large-scale and/or collaborative efforts to identify, develop and share improved learning tools, methods and resources to prepare - and maintain - workers who have the high levels of knowledge and the skills industry and other employers require.
Competency Models - A Resource for Economic Development
Organizations that are aware of the value of skill standards find that competency modeling provides a highly efficient, employer-driven process that support curriculum design, skill validation and competency management, all in a web-based environment that:
- Establishes a replicable model for skills validation
- Is built upon employer-defined skill standards that create a lifelong career path of professional development
- Provides validated on-line resumes for potential employees and incumbents
- Documents the competency attainment of individuals and facilitates communication regarding training needs between employers, area educators and future workers
Click here to download a copy of the Competency Modeling Overview and Health Care Case Study
For additional information regarding Workforce and Economic Development, please contact:
Alan B. Lesure, President
Learning Resources, Inc.
1117 E. Putnam Avenue, # 260
Riverside, CT 06878
Phone: 203-637-5047; Fax: 203-637-2786
e-mail: alesure@Learning-Resources.com
