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Special emphasis should be placed on workforce skills, issued by the SCANS Commission (Secretary of Labor's Commission on Achieving Necessary Skills) in 1992. In the report, a group of business and education leaders identified five workplace competencies and three foundation skills needed for solid workplace performance. All workers need to have these skills, native or non-native speakers of English, high school dropouts or Ph.D. candidates. Briefly, the five systems identified as workplace competencies are:

• Resources: allocating time, money, materials, space, staff
  
• Interpersonal Skills: working with others
  
• Information: locating, evaluating, organizing and processing information.
  
• Systems: understanding, managing and improving systems.
  
• Technology: interacting successfully in all aspects of technology use.
  

The commission also listed three foundation skills that workers need to be able to perform the workplace competencies:

• Basic skills: reading, writing, mathematics, speaking, and listening
  
• Thinking skills: thinking creatively, making decisions, solving problems, reasoning
  
• Personal qualities: responsibility, self-esteem, sociability, self-management, and integrity.

     

This program was developed by the State of Florida Adult Secondary/GED/VPI Committee of the Practitioners' Task Force, through an Adult Education State Leadership Grant from the Florida Department of Education, Division of Community Colleges and Workforce Education.

Disclaimer: While every effort has been made to ensure the accuracy of this web-based training component, it is not an official publication of the Florida Department of Education.