Guidelines for Copyright and Intellectual Property Usage

To use the tools and training materials from the Workplace Connections Project, follow the guidelines below.

  1. You are a Certified Skills for Success Workplace Practitioner and Relational Skills Trainer in good standing.
  2. You can use the materials and insert your own company logo provided you put "Used with permission; copyright Workplace Connections 2023." 
  3. If you alter the content e.g., insert a bit of your own materials you must state, "Adapted with permission; copyright Workplace Connections 2023."
  4. If you are taking a piece of the content and inserting it into a larger piece of your own content, you put the extracted piece in italics and use a footnote or insert the source Workplace Connections, with the excerpt.
  5. If you use a third-party piece of content, e.g., from the web or another document and no source is listed, state "Source Unknown" with the excerpt. 
  6. If you use website screenshots or videos or clips, put the link and the date you used the link. 
  7. It is always better to use the materials as they are and make an "amendment" or add on page, where you insert segments for reference, e.g., especially you are using your own content. 
  8. Always include the following logos for Skills for Success Materials. Never stack the logos vertically.
    1. Workplace Connections Logo
    2. Government of Canada Logo
    3. WEM logo

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  1. Always include the following logos for Relational Skills Materials. Never stack the logos vertically.
    1. Relational Skills Logo
    2. WEM logo
    3. Government of Canada Logo

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Any questions at all, email [email protected] as she is the Project Director, and she will direct you.