With Russia as the latest WIAL affiliate, WIAL colored in a significant chunk of the WIAL global map ! Dennis Sanko introduces himself, WIAL Russia and the first experiences with Action Learning in Russia. 

Culture change is a popular buzzword. How do you get started in a company with more than 300,000 employees ? That's the challenge Auchan Retail is facing when it considers how to ensure ownership and buy-in with the company's new strategy. Auchan decided to pilot Action Learning in Ukraine. First feedback from participants is very positive and collaboration has taken a great leap forward. Click to read more about this ambitious program.

WIAL has started to create a series of simple two-minute videos to illustrate the different "solutions" that Action Learning brings. In this edition, we invite you to (re)discover how Action Learning 

helps in solving complex problems. Click on the image to 

discover the video or click here to go straight  to WIAL's Youtube channel ! And check back because more videos are in the making !

Selecting employees to join your team is stressful for both sides. There are plenty of tools to evaluate personalities, yet whoever has used them agrees this is not the whole picture and that seeing people in "real" action is a great test to find out how they think, communicate and work with others. A leading company in Brazil has used Action Learning to enhance the recruitment process, with resounding success, both for the company and the candidates. Even the rejected candidates find that they have learned something from this innovative way of evaluating and recruiting. A definite win-win all around !