Through working in action learning sets, our action learning masters bring together diverse people within an organisation to work through issues, share ideas and challenge perceptions in a trusting, supportive environment. Your organisation will benefit from the unparalleled experience of facilitators who have used action learning with more depth and breadth than other more generalist training professionals.
Results are tangible and long lasting.
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Action learning is used by leading organisations to support, motivate and challenge teams. It takes ideas and thinking into solid actions, builds networks and relationships, promotes empathy and develops soft skills. It encourages reflective practice and develops stronger leaders.1
Bringing our expert practitioners in to facilitate your action learning sets can provide a structured, unbiased experience for real impact amongst you and your managers and will set you up to integrate action learning into the culture of your organisation. They have multi-disciplinary experience across multiple sectors bringing new perspectives into your teams.
The action learning process brings peers together for reflective learning in a supportive environment. It stimulates transformation, helping individuals and organisations achieve goals such as leadership development, building management skills and confidence, and greater impact. Essentially, action learning is about making things happen.
Facilitating action learning groups (known as ‘sets’) within organisations is a major element of our work. Customers come to us for a wide range of reasons – to upskill their teams, to achieve key objectives or resolve key issues. To change culture or behaviour in the light of a new strategy, merger or set of values. To develop networks and share best practice across the organisation or across a sector, to support staff development or to embed a culture of learning and growth.
Take a look at some of our customers’ comments about their experiences of Action Learning Associates.
Our work with you would begin with a conversation about what you are looking to achieve. We would develop a bespoke plan in partnership with you to meet these goals, which could include facilitation of one or many action learning sets.
I learnt so much from my fellow participants. Joining a set isn’t a nice to do for a Chief Executive – it is essential
Please get in touch with us if you’d like to discuss action learning facilitation for your organisation.
Deliver projects, promote team cohesion, improve personal performance, support businesses during change and achieve commercial and organisational objectives.
Build resilience, resourcefulness, promote problem solving skills and develop competencies to manage tight budgets, overwhelming demands and complex challenges.
Develop strong managerial skills for more effective community leadership, solve problems, create social change, promote cultural change & drive smarter working practices.
Develop agile, flexible leaders who inspire confidence, trust, and creativity in a sector that is diverse, exhilarating yet often high risk.
If you would like your team to facilitate their own action learning sessions, we also train new action learning facilitators.
1 Leonard, H., Marquardt, Michael, The evidence for the effectiveness of action learning, (Action Learning: Research and Practice, 2010), 121-136