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Action Learning--An Experience Working with Executives at the IBM Corporation
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Tracy, Marianne – Action Learning: Research and Practice, 2011
The increasing emphasis on innovation in executive development has important implications for contemporary organizations talent professionals and strategy creators. Providing an experience that addresses individual and team development, strategic innovation, organizational alignment and the integration of values is the objective of the action…
Descriptors: Team Training, Innovation, Experiential Learning, Organizational Development
A Practice Learning Field: The Electric Maze.
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Kimball, Richard O. – Journal of Experiential Education, 1993
The Electric Maze is an interactive learning device that promotes group learning skills among management teams. It provides a "practice field" where participants can explore and apply the principles of effective teamwork under realistic conditions of uncertainty, discomfort, and mistakes. This training aims to enable management teams to…
Descriptors: Collegiality, Experiential Learning, Group Dynamics, Interprofessional Relationship
Putting Management Team-Building To Work.
Larcher, Bob – Horizons, 1999
Describes the design and delivery of outdoor-based team-building programs that enable management teams to transfer what they learn back to the workplace. Discusses a model of group development, five phases of the team-building process, combining tasks and review processes to yield outcomes, and an experiential-learning cycle. (TD)
Descriptors: Corporate Education, Experiential Learning, Foreign Countries, Group Dynamics
Developmental Action Learning: Toward Collaborative Change
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Raelin, Joseph A.; Raelin, Jonathan D. – Action Learning: Research and Practice, 2006
In this account of practice, the authors introduce a variant of classic action learning, called developmental action learning (DAL). The DAL model, derived from cognitive development theory, introduces conventional learning modules prior to the more intensive set experience. It also calls for facilitation designed to help participants, selected…
Descriptors: Institutional Cooperation, Experiential Learning, Learning Modules, Organizational Development
Group Development and Group Dynamics in Outdoor Education.
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McAvoy, Leo H.; Mitten, Denise S.; Stringer, L. Allison; Steckart, James P.; Sproles, Kraig – 1996
This paper reviews the research literature published between 1992 and 1995 on group development and group dynamics in outdoor education and closely allied disciplines. The research is categorized in six general dimensions: (1) how the personal characteristics, skills, and experience that individuals bring to the group influences group dynamics and…
Descriptors: Adventure Education, Corporate Education, Educational Research, Experiential Learning
A Research Summary for Corporate Adventure Training (CAT) and Experience-Based Training and Development (EBTD).
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Priest, Simon – 1996
Experience-based training and development (EBTD), also known as Outdoor Management Development (OMD) in Great Britain and corporate adventure training (CAT) in Canada and Australia, is a field that uses adventure activities to bring beneficial change to organizations, primarily corporations. Activities used in EBTD and CAT programs include…
Descriptors: Adventure Education, Corporate Education, Educational Research, Experiential Learning