Peter Pribilla
“Building teams has become a key goal and achievement of Action Learning at Siemens. Action Learning has helped the company maximize the entrepreneurial spirit and enhance team player qualities such as cooperation and free exchange of ideas. The quality of teams has resulted in more innovative ways of finding new solutions for customer requirements. Peter […]
Gerald van Schaik
“Real progress in business is achieved only by corporations and individuals trying out creative ideas and making them work, by pooling talent, and most of all, by learning while doing. Action Learning is the vehicle for achieving this. Gerald van Schaik // Former Chairman of Executive Board, Heineken
Practicing What We Preach
Presentation by: Gail Finger and Patricia Larsen Review of the two-year Action Learning project
Neuroscience of Motivation
Presentation by: Dr. Dean Mobbs and Walter McFarland Human motivation has been a key focus of organizational science for the last hundred years. In spite of this focus, much remains unknown about how to create and sustain high levels of motivation in the organizational context.
Neuroscience and Action Learning
By: Walter Mcfarland and Dr. Bea Carson Presentation for The World Institute for Action Learning
Leading with Questions: How Leaders Find the Right Solutions by Knowing What to Ask (New Edition)
In this thoroughly updated new edition of his business classic Leading with Questions, internationally acclaimed management consultant Michael Marquardt shows how you can learn to ask the powerful questions that will generate short-term results and long-term learning and success. Throughout the book, he demonstrates how effective leaders use questions to encourage participation and teamwork, foster […]
THE NEUROSCIENCE OF LEADERSHIP
Presentation by: David Rock and Jeffrey Schwartz
When Action Learning Will Not Work
Presentation by: Arthur M. Freedman, MBA, Ph.D., MALC In your experience, what conditions, situations, or relationships result in a failure of Action Learning?
Leading Organizational Change Using Action Learning By Arthur M. Freedman PhD and H. Skipton Leonard
Organizations in all sectors and in all industries are and will continue to be confronted by the challenge of multiple changes in their external environments. For example, creation of disruptive technologies, fluctuating economies, increasing or decreasing governmental regulations, demographic shifts, human and natural disasters, expanding globalism, and aggressive competition. As the environmental landscape changes unpredictably […]
Great Solutions Through Action Learning: Success Every Time By H. Skipton Leonard PhD and Arthur M. Freedman PhD
This book fills a conspicuous gap in the Action Learning literature – providing specific principles, strategies, and recommendations to coaches for developing the questions that are the foundation of effective Action Learning. Many other books provide the theory of Action Learning as well as recommendations for setting up Action Learning projects. In addition to this […]