Worksphere is a TDC support network initiative to assist workers in maintaining long-term employment security and economic well-being.

The changed economic landscape of the 21st century demands a reconceptualization of vocational education and challenges the very notion of job training. Workers need to be flexible, creative, critical thinkers in order to navigate the 21st century world of work. They need to be technologically fluent to manage the world of rapid technological innovation. The ability to network and to engage in life-long learning opportunities have become hallmarks of work.

Many of the component designs described in the following pages are part of the larger Worksphere design for worker support.

Some common themes are:

Life-long learning

Workers today will have many jobs during their work lives. Becoming life-long learners ensures a lifetime of participation in the economy.

Sustainable employability

The first step toward sustainable employability is building the necessary job qualifications that offer entry into the job market. Today, workers need a fuller range of performance capabilities and perhaps as importantly, they need to understand those capabilities in their general application as well as their specific applications.

Flexibility

The pace of economic change is putting a premium on worker flexibility. The ability to translate a set of skills into new applications will be the difference between life-long participation in the workforce and job displacement.

Creativity

Creativity can be developed and nurtured through appropriate learning experiences. The development of creativity is perhaps the single most important skill for navigating the continuous churning of the economy. Workers who are not creative will not be rewarded in this economy.

For more about Worksphere, please peruse the program pages that follow.