The Canadian Council on Learning recently released a report saying their country isn’t doing so well in terms of training workers.  This according to an article at CanadianBusiness.com.

Apparently while Canadians do pretty well in traditional school, once they graduate and enter the job market, learning often goes by the wayside. But that has the Council’s CEO, Paul Cappon, fairly concerned. He says “Learning isn’t just going to school. We are now in a global knowledge society . . . .When people get out of school they lose their competency in literacy, numeracy and problem solving.”

And Cappon’s group is not the only one raising concern about training in Canada. An article by Sharon Adams in Business Edge magazine says Canadian leaders are trying to keep older workers in the workforce as an effort to prevent worker shortages. Reason: Within ten years about half of all workers in Canada will be over age 55. 

While this may mean an increase in the number of senior discounts meals at the local pancake house, it doesn’t bode well for many of Canada’s larger companies, which will by hit hard by the changes.

I’ve not studied the numbers, but it seems like Canada—and probably many other countries—will need to ramp up quickly on how it trains younger workers.  By all indicators, today’s twenty- and thirtysomethings will need to learn business and leadership skills much faster than their parents had to.

PS. This also means that people need to be equipped to train them!

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