Action Learning

From Boston to Brazil, Finland to Tokyo, companies as diverse as Samsung, GE, Deutsche Bank and Boeing share one powerful workplace learning tool: Action Learning. They have created thousands of new products and services, improved service quality, cut costs and delivery times, and made fundamental changes to their organizations’ cultures by unleashing the power of Action Learning. Action Learning has rapidly emerged as a primary tool used by firms like Nokia, Novartis and Siemens for solving their critical and complex problems, developing leaders, building teams, and expanding corporate capabilities"      

Michael Marquardt

Action Learning focusses on a problem, a question, a project, a challenge, an issue, or a task – the resolution of which is of high importance to an individual, team or an organisation. The problem should be significant and should provide an opportunity for the group - or learning set - to take action and generate learning opportunities. Typically, the situations in which "I am part of the problem and the problem is part of me" work well. An action learning cycle emphasises and combines taking action with insightful questioning and reflective listening. The reflective inquiry process builds group cohesiveness, promotes systems thinking and introduces different perspectives. Action Learning can generate real time changes in what people do and how they do it.

Action learning can effectively help to:

* Solve Complex Urgent Problems
* Develop Skilled Leaders
* Build high performance teams
* Transform Corporate Culture
* Create and support Learning Organisations

Simple yet profound - Action Learning has enabled many organisations to achieve added value and to get people to accept responsibility for their own learning. We develop and run action learning based programmes for Leadership and can help you to develop and deliver action learning based programmes and projects which fit with your objectives.