CULTURE CHANGE? NOT WITHOUT ACTION LEARNING
What is culture? I recently reread Edgar Schein’s seminal book “Organizational Culture and Leadership”1. Schein identifies culture as “a pattern of shared basic assumptions learned by a group as it solved its problems of external adaptation and internal integration, which has worked well enough to be considered valid and, therefore, to be taught to new […]
THE PANDEMIC PURSUIT: A POST-GRADUATE CALC’S TIMELY TALE
As someone who loves to learn and to take action, you can imagine the immediate curiosity I had when I first heard about Action Learning. My colleagues who have had the chance to participate in Action Learning sessions spoke about it with much enthusiasm, but when asked about the details, all of them said the […]
SAFETY AS A TEAM PROCESS: AN ACTION LEARNING PERSPECTIVE ON EXPERIENCING AND REPORTING SOCIAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL SAFETY AS A TEAM PROCESS
Professional Action Learning Coach Christoph Maria Ravesloot from WIAL Netherlands specializes in working for teams with trauma blocking the team development. The first step is to make the safety in the team negotiable and get it to the attention and care of the team. He wrote a blog on that theme from two action learning […]
WHY IS JUMBO VISMA THE EXAMPLE OF A HIGH PERFORMING ACTION LEARNING TEAM?
Over the summer I took a month off for vacation. I managed to distance myself from my work quite well. But ignoring sports successes is impossible for me. In 2021, it was TeamNL at the Olympic Games, but in 2022 it was the performance of the Jumbo Visma team during the Tour de France that […]
SEEING WHAT’S INVISIBLE PART 1
When these invitations show up to write for the WIAL Newsletter my first sense is that I really have nothing to tell anyone. So, why not use this opportunity for some hard thinking to organize my ideas on how some of my practices may be showing up to help me to see beneath the surface […]
ACTION LEARNING IS A SYSTEMIC TEAM COACHING APPROACH
Given the current and growing interest in team coaching among a wide range of organizations, it will be increasingly important to highlight action learning as a systemic team coaching approach, in addition to its value as a group coaching and problem-solving methodology. While there are many flavors of Action Learning, the single-problem approach developed by […]
ACTION LEARNING: UNDERSTAND WHAT IT IS AND ITS RELEVANCE TO COMPANIES
The human mind learns in different ways: reading, listening, seeing, debating the subject… all this contributes to the acquisition of knowledge. And when we practice something, then we perpetuate the learning cycle. In the corporate world, we call this practice Action Learning, did you know? Read More
David Giang -Thai Union Group PCL.
“As part of our executive development program, we utilized “Action Learning” to help our leaders work through specific problems and learn from each other during the problem solving process. We found Action Learning effective, as it helped the leaders discover solutions through a group coaching format, simultaneously leveraging off each of their experiences as they […]
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