Marketing programs and setting goals for learning on the strength of these financial results can be dangerous for both the participants and the educators. One workplace educator suggests, “Let the company continue to do its regular accounting and monitoring of productivity in all aspects. If things improve, we are part of the reason why. If they don’t improve, then we have to keep looking further as the company does for all the factors that play into it. When one of the companies we were working with got back a big rebate for the lowest number of accidents for the year, I said, yes we’r e part of that. In fact, the rebate covered the cost of the education programs.”

Defining Your Own Good Practice Guidelines

As literacy networks across Ontario become involved and gain experience in all aspects of workplace education, networks and delivery agencies may want to define their own good practice guidelines. Those guidelines would reflect the values, experiences and interests of the partners in their own communities. A network can plan to review good practice guidelines individually or collectively with other networks active in the field. This process could entail a review of existing good practice and a defining of new guidelines by the community/regional partners in workplace education.