Cape Town – In today’s fast-paced business world, effective corporate training can’t be a one-size-fits-all solution. Kwelanga Training takes a more deliberate route, aligning their training with the client’s business context and starting the process with a conversation rather than a workshop calendar booking.
‘We begin with discovery – understanding your business, your culture, your people – so that training feels grounded and genuinely useful,’ says Mark Janse van Rensburg, Managing Director of Kwelanga Training.
‘By aligning programmes from the inside out, we ensure the learning lands with relevance and impact. That relevance is reinforced by how we structure the learning itself – using frameworks that drive real-world outcomes.’
Janse van Rensburg shares the story of a client who said that they had previously completed a ‘brilliant course that solved the wrong problem’. ‘That stuck with me,’ he says.
That’s what happens when training is treated as a silo. Relevance matters. Context matters. One-size-fits-all doesn’t fit anyone.’
Founded in 2007, Kwelanga has grown into one of South Africa’s most trusted partners in leadership and soft skills development.
Through modular, human-centred learning journeys, Kwelanga goes far beyond traditional training to create behaviour change that sticks and delivers measurable business value.
A core part of this is the 70-20-10 learning model, which integrates experiential learning (70%) with social learning (20%) and formal training (10%). ‘We’ve mastered the 10%.
The formal training delivered by our subject matter experts almost always exceed delegate and client expectations. They are our secret sauce,’ says Janse van Rensburg.
‘Now we’re focused on enabling the 20% and 70%, through peer learning, on-the-job application, and strategic support tools that embed the learning into daily work.’
From first line through to middle management development requirements, Kwelanga is seeing a marked shift in demand for its courses.
‘According to a report by Catalyst, this group makes up 50% to 60% of the management population and is responsible for leading 80% of your workforce – yet they are often the most underdeveloped.
This speaks directly to the reason as to why so many organisations battle with employee and culture issues,’ says Janse van Rensburg.
That insight shaped the development of Kwelanga’s First-Line Management Development Programme (FMDP), powered by the GC Index®.
The programme, which is designed around the fundamental skills these leaders need to thrive, is underpinned by a robust Training Needs Analysis tool, which identifies critical capability gaps and shapes the curriculum accordingly.
Each solution can be white-labelled, tailored to the client’s context, and focused on high-impact modules aligned to their critical success factors.
This thinking extends into their client relationships. Whether engaging with HR leaders, COOs or business unit heads, Kwelanga positions itself as a business partner, rather than simply another training vendor.
‘The workplace is changing,’ concludes Janse van Rensburg. ‘Learning must evolve with it.
Businesses cannot afford to waste either precious time or limited budgets on training that doesn’t move the needle. Our role is to make sure it does – by connecting learning to real-world performance from day one.’
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