Workplace Learning

"Is it better to train the employee and risk their leaving the company, or not to train them and have them stay?"

This was a comment from a panelist at a recent USM Corporate Partners breakfast. Businesses represented on the panel were Acorn Slippers, Maine Barrel, American Tool, and Nichols Portland.

Every one of the businesses had high praise for the Center for Workplace Learning which is helping to train and re-train employees, provide additional skills, offer reading, writing and literacy courses, etc.. A grant to the Center is now helping more than 500 employees in the Lewiston-Auburn area.

The panel was presented by Nancy Martz, Director of the Center which is part of the College of Education and Human Development. For more information on the Center, contact 780-5572.

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