Organizational and workplace changes are altering the work of trainers and consequently their professional development needs. Training and development professionals need a foundation in training design and delivery with the ability to incorporate multiple perspectives, delivery systems, and locations and to be responsive to change. (SK)

Action Reflection Learning uses group activities to develop critical reflection skills. Because learning takes place in teams working on real-world problems, it can lead to systems change and organizational capacity development. (SK)

Reflective practice through continuous learning in the workplace involves viewing experiences as potential learning and reexamining assumptions, values, methods, policies, and practices. Steps in continuous work/learning are as follows: clarify thinking, be open to questions, notice context, test hunches, investigate, name and rename the problem,…

This article raises questions about the universal valuing of behaviorism in workplace learning based on a review of trends in organizations in the postindustrial era and analyses of theorists within and outside the field who emphasize the importance of reflectivity and critical reflectivity in learning. (Author)

This book describes a learning organization and reports on experiments carried out at four levels--individual, team, organizational, and societal--illustrating the action imperatives for creating a learning organization. Part 1 (chapters 1-3) explores the shifts that are leading companies to become learning organizations. It offers a framework for…