B.C. Employer Training Grant (ETG). Workforce Training Stream
“British Columbia. WorkBC”
$300,000.00
Maximum Eligible Amount
Government Grant
Fund Type
This stream supports employers to upgrade their employees’ skills and develop their workforce. This stream is designed to support any training that aligns with an employer’s business needs. For example: advanced occupational training, leadership, management and soft skills training fall under this category.
- Training supported under this stream includes but is not limited to: Management Skills Training: Defined as developing skills in strategic planning, leading and motivating, allocating and controlling resources, evaluating, co-ordinating and organizing, recruiting and hiring, supervising and leadership; Business Skills Training: Defined as training to develop skills to increase sales, marketing, social media marketing and communication, streamline processes and organizational structures and change management; Soft Skills: Defined as personal management skills required by the current labour market. Soft skills are personal skills and characteristics required by employers across different sectors and at different stages of an employee’s career.
- Expected outcomes of training: employers report increased workplace productivity; employers contribute to skills training of their current or new employees; participant has a job (where participant was unemployed prior to training) or better job at the end of the training.