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Live Webinar: Why a culture of continuous learning matters.

Tuesday 21st May 2.30pm – 3.15pm BST This event has taken place, click here to view a recording. A workforce that is continually … More

Celebrating Women’s Achievements

International Women’s Day is a focal point for all the good work that goes on throughout the year, and around the globe, in … More

20th Anniversary Celebration – thanks for a wonderful day!

As many of you know Action Learning Associates celebrated its 20thAnniversary in December with an event held at the Lumen Rooms in London. … More

Special event – ALA’s 20th Anniversary Celebration

Thank you to everyone who has booked to join us this Wednesday, we’ve been overwhelmed by the warm response we have received, and … More

September 2018 newsletter – Procrastination Vs Action

Our September newsletter is out now, news from recent and not so recent past participants of our action learning facilitator training, courses news, … More

Blog

Latest Blog Posts

These are the latest extracts from our blog, a rich commentary on the world of action learning and its applications in the real world. You can explore this in full by following this link: Our blog

The Diversity Principle

Nick Wright writes...

One of the greatest benefits of Action Learning is the opportunity to receive questions from people who know little or nothing about the … More

Restoring thinking

Ruth Cook writes...

T.S. Elliot wrote “we are distracted from distraction by distraction”. I have been inspired this summer by reading Margaret Wheatley’s book which is … More

Learning With and From Each Other: Action Learning lessons from around the world

John Heywood writes...

Global Forum June 2019 In June 2019, Ruth Cook and I attended the 24th Global Forum on Business Driven Action Learning in Paris. … More

Action learning for team delivery of projects

Sonja Antell writes...

Occasionally, we find it appropriate to move away from the classic action learning set approach to use the principles of action learning in … More

Global Forum on Action Learning

Ruth Cook writes...

My head is buzzing after 3 days meeting action learners from around the world in Paris. The conference was a mix of global … More

Courses

Forthcoming Courses

Action learning facilitator training for individuals

12 - 14 November 2019 Bermondsey Street Booking now N° of places available: 3

21 - 23 January 2020 Bermondsey Street Booking now N° of places available: 4

17 - 19 March 2020 Bermondsey Street Booking now N° of places available: 6

ILM endorsed professional development day

18th October 2019 Bermondsey Street Fully Booked
Places sometimes become available, click here to join the waiting list.

4th February 2020 Bermondsey Street Booking Now N° of places available: 2

Doing more with action learning

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Virtual action learning for experienced facilitators (CPD)

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Action learning facilitator training, delivered virtually

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Events

Forthcoming Events

Learning With and From Each Other: Action Learning lessons from around the world

Global Forum June 2019 In June 2019, Ruth Cook and I attended the 24th Global Forum on Business Driven Action Learning in Paris. … More

Global Forum on Action Learning

My head is buzzing after 3 days meeting action learners from around the world in Paris. The conference was a mix of global … More

Live Webinar: Why a culture of continuous learning matters.

Tuesday 21st May 2.30pm – 3.15pm BST This event has taken place, click here to view a recording. A workforce that is continually … More

20th Anniversary Celebration – thanks for a wonderful day!

As many of you know Action Learning Associates celebrated its 20thAnniversary in December with an event held at the Lumen Rooms in London. … More

Special event – ALA’s 20th Anniversary Celebration

Thank you to everyone who has booked to join us this Wednesday, we’ve been overwhelmed by the warm response we have received, and … More

Case Studies

Sowing seeds – from a single action learning programme to a Pan-European movement

By Alessandra Gariboldi Head of Research and Development at Fitzcarraldo, Italy 4 years ago, I took part in an international programme called ADESTE. … More

Leading the energy sector’s transformation toward a more sustainable society

Challenge To support senior managers on a talent development programme as they prepare for director roles in an organisation going through significant change … More

How A2Dominion Group transformed management capabilities

Working in the social sector brings with it its own challenges and pressures. Anything that can help managers perform better, feel more confident … More

Action learning team buiding in the engineering sector

Using action learning to deliver projects and build a team – Sandvik Coromant

Sandvik Coromant UK (part of a Swedish based global engineering company of real standing in their market) commissioned ALA to deliver a programme of project based action learning sets to help build on the success of a major new sales route as well as improve cohesion within the national sales team. More

Changing the social care system with action learning

Lankelly Chase Foundation works to bring about change that will transform the quality of life of people who face severe and multiple disadvantage. The ‘Promoting Change Network’ (PCN) has been set up by Lankelly Chase to foster learning, and supports 40 or so organisations which receive funding from the Foundation. More

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