Low Literacy Impacts Your Bottom Line!
WHAT IS LOW LITERACY COSTING YOU?
Low literacy may be affecting your business’s bottom line. Research shows that low literacy skills among employees can result in –
- Reduced Productivity and a need for increased supervision
- Customer dissatisfaction and a black-eye for your company image
- Increased employee frustration, ineffective teamwork, and higher turnover rates
- Higher accident rates and worker’s compensation insurance costs
- Higher health care costs and greater absenteeism
WARNING SIGNS YOUR EMPLOYEES MAY HAVE LOW LITERACY –
- Habitually missing or incomplete notation
- Embarrassingly poor grammar and spelling in e-mail and documents
- Repeated failure to take notes (Your employee insists: “I’ll remember.”)
- Missing cover letter with job application
Is low literacy holding back an otherwise capable and trusted employee?
TRI-COUNTY LITERACY VOLUNTEERS HAS A SOLUTION –
“READING FOR BETTER BUSINESS” *
Investing in education has been shown to have twice the effect on productivity as may be achieved by increasing employee hours or investing in equipment!
“READING FOR BETTER BUSINESS” WILL –
- Help you approach employees who need to improve literacy skills
- Take your employees’ literacy skills to the next level
- Protect your employees confidentiality
- Provide trained, volunteer tutors in either Basic Literacy or English as a Second Language
- Provide appropriate materials to improve literacy skills for the workplace
Call 443-6384 for more information or to connect
with this locally grant-funded program of
The Tri-County Literacy Volunteers!
