National Adult Literacy Database

This short guide is designed to help employers incorporate essential skills into workplace training. The essential skills include thinking, working with others, document use, oral communication, reading, writing, numeracy, continuous learning, and computer use. Activities that focus on each of these nine skills are provided. They can be used in formal or informal training to help employees improve their essential skills. The activities listed here are suggestions only. Employers are encouraged to modify them or develop new activities that are tailored to the specific needs and goals of their organization.