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The Action Learning Organisation -- An Account of Practice
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Cother, Genevieve June; Cother, Robert Fletcher; Woodworth, William Stanley; Souster, Leslie John; Moriarty, Daniel; Miller, Luke; Chugg, Roxanne; Cother, Christine Sophia – Action Learning: Research and Practice, 2019
Feedback from companies forming a community of practice in Tasmania, Australia, is that there is a need for a framework for self-directed action learning within each organisation as well as across the action learning community. Senior management report that there is a 'falling away' after a facilitated action learning intervention concludes and,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Experiential Learning, Organizational Culture, Learning Processes
Action Learning in the Service of Food Security and Poverty Alleviation in Mozambique
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Ussivane, Armando Machevo; Ellwood, Paul – Action Learning: Research and Practice, 2020
We report the use of action learning within a state-owned enterprise charged with delivering a large food security and poverty alleviation program in Mozambique. Successful management of the program requires the co-ordination of a wide variety of different stakeholders including both commercial and subsistence farmers, community leaders and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Food, Hunger, Poverty
"Cast Your Net Widely": Three Steps to Expanding and Refining Your Problem before Action Learning Application
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Reese, Simon R. – Action Learning: Research and Practice, 2015
This paper reflects upon a three-step process to expand the problem definition in the early stages of an action learning project. The process created a community-powered problem-solving approach within the action learning context. The simple three steps expanded upon in the paper create independence, dependence, and inter-dependence to aid the…
Descriptors: Experiential Learning, Educational Practices, Educational Change, Problem Solving
Invisible Practices; Innovative Outcomes: Intrapreneurship within the Academy
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Dovey, Ken; Rembach, Michael – Action Learning: Research and Practice, 2015
Across the world, higher education is facing new challenges as governments cut subsidies, new technologies enable "massively open" online courses, students are accessed from global locations, and the centuries-old mission of universities is commercialised. In spite of these profound changes, most institutions of higher education have…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Entrepreneurship, Administrative Organization, Higher Education
Franchisees in Crisis: Using Action Learning to Self-Organise
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O'Donoghue, Carol – Action Learning: Research and Practice, 2011
The present article describes the use of action learning by a group of 30 franchisees to organise themselves and work through a period of upheaval and uncertainty when their parent company faced liquidation. Written from the perspective of one of the franchisees who found herself adopting action learning principles to facilitate the group, it…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Experiential Learning, Facilitators (Individuals), Organizational Development
The Compatibility of Action Learning with Inner Game Coaching
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Aitkenhead, Andy – Action Learning: Research and Practice, 2009
Using "inner game" coaching techniques in the remediation of a challenged programme at a Global Investment Bank the environment was transformed into a delivery focused culture. The techniques included group sessions that would be familiar to anyone aware of action learning and were an integral part of the strategy to ensure sustainable…
Descriptors: Experiential Learning, Sustainable Development, Active Learning, Coaching (Performance)