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CULTURE CHANGE? NOT WITHOUT ACTION LEARNING

It’s about shifting or changing the basic underlying assumptions What is culture? I recently reread Edgar Schein’s seminal book “Organizational Culture and Leadership” . Schein identifies culture as “a pattern of shared basic assumptions learned by a group as...

ACTION LEARNING AND PERSONAL LEADERSHIP

During an Action Learning Session, the team can get to a point that one or more persons discover how he/ she or they are part of the problem. In a fast changing environment around the organization and around the problem...

A FRESH LOOK AT GROUND RULE #1 And a call to apply it strictly as a coach !

Ground Rule #1 If there's anything a WIAL Action Learning coach remembers from their certification program, it is the power of WIAL's Ground Rule #1: Statements can only be made in response to questions (and anyone can ask a question...