Global Centre for Work-Applied Learning (GCWAL) empowers managers and their teams as well as organisations to implement change and to undertake practitioner research using the Work-Applied Learning (WAL) model.

GCWAL’s change programmes are specifically designed for middle, senior and top managers and their teams.

Change programmes for individuals such as non-managerial staff, graduates, early-stage entrepreneurs and junior managers are offered by the Work-Readiness Institute Australia (WRIA) which is an associate of GCWAL.

The delineation of programmes is shown in the diagram which is an adaptation of the Katz Model. Both of GCWAL and WRIA programmes focus on developing and enhancing human skills as well as business and management skills, rather than technical skills.

Each programme uses our consultative WAL process to achieve change, whether at an individual, team or organisational level. All programmes are delivered with inbuilt support from experienced GCWAL Programme Advisors and Facilitators.

Benjamin Franklin said: “Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.” Thus, the WAL model requires the managers, leaders and entrepreneurs to not only learn relevant business and management concepts but actually apply them in a real-life Work-Applied Change projects. This integration of the concepts and their application in the project provides greater understanding and helps managers and entrepreneurs, as change leaders, to embed their learning which can then be applied in other contexts.

The WAL model resulted from the innovative work and research undertaken by GCWAL’s founder, Emeritus Professor Selva Abraham, who also founded the Australian Institute of Business. The WAL model is an extension of the Work-Based Learning (WBL) process which Professor Abraham has been investigating with managers and researchers since 1979.