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What is Action Learning

Benefits of Action Learning

Action Learning helps organizations:

  • Establish effective succession planning by helping develop a cadre of highly qualified candidates for promotion to executive leadership positions
  • Deepen participants' confidence in their leadership and team participation skills
  • Become more strategic in their goal setting
  • Take action to solve problems at all levels in the organization

Action Learning helps teams:

  • Establish effective, mutually respectful working relationships with co-workers at all organizational levels
  • Develop competence among individuals and teams in problem-solving and decision-making
  • Enhance their capacity to reflect on and learn from their collective experiences
  • Increase competence in preparing and presenting team recommendations to executive management concerning urgent organizational issues

Action Learning helps individuals:

  • Relate Action Learning research, theory and methods to their organizational challenges
  • Enhance their capacity to reflect on and learn from their individual experiences
  • Develop an awareness of how their implicit assumptions, beliefs, attitudes, preferences, and organizational interests influence their thinking, decisions and actions
  • Increase competence in preparing and presenting recommendations to executive management concerning urgent organizational issues.

GE and Action Learning

General Electric has used Action Learning longer than any other American company. Action Learning has enabled GE people to learn and apply new skills while working on real problems —skills such as team building, conflict management, problem solving, coaching and change management.
© 2006-2011 World Institute for Action Learning
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