WRIA develops the human, business and management skills which people need through the transitions of working life — graduates, early-career staff, and new managers. It does this through work-based learning: a real workplace project, structured reflection, and a way to measure how each person develops.
WRIA is dedicated to developing work readiness — the capability people need to perform as they move into a new role or level.
Drawing on the Katz model of management skills, each WRIA programme targets development where it matters most for that stage of a career.
The diagram of the Katz model shows the skills that managers need to be effective in their careers. The need for Human Skills remains constant throughout the individual’s career. However, with every move into a higher management position, managers require more Conceptual Skills and less Technical Skills.
Since present and potential managers would have acquired technical skills as part of their higher or college education or previous work experience, our programmes focus only on developing the Human Skills and the Conceptual Skills (namely business and management conceptual skills).
Every WRIA programme runs a real workplace project through the Work-Based Learning (WBL) method — knowledge, project, questioning and performance.