What is Action Learning and how does it help Solve Organizational Problems?

1. What is Action Learning and how does it help Solve Organizational Problems? Action Learning is defined as a combination of project mentoring, individual coaching, group coaching, facilitation and skills development trainings. The action learning group comprises of 4-7 people and a facilitator who stick together in a pre-specified period of time. Each group member has to bring a start- up or a running project or a project related problem to the action learning group for which he is responsible. Each member of the group will hold the role of project, while the others operate as coaches. The facilitator will ensure that all the project holders or problem presenters get enough support to accomplish their goals and will do every possible thing to maximize the new knowledge at individual, group and corporate level.

2. Why choose Action Learning? In action learning, real people are resolving and taking action on real problems in real time and learning while doing so. The great attraction of action learning is its unique power to simultaneously solve difficult challenges and develop people and organizations at minimum costs. The quickly changing environment and unpredictable global challenges need organizations and individuals to both act and learn at the same time. Also today’s world is marked by rapid globalization and cut-throat competition in the marketplace, with turbo-speed changes created by technology. Increased complexity of organizational problems requires enhanced innovation, and must be resolved within shorter time periods with larger networks of cooperation. Today organizations are turning to action learning because of the traditional ways of solving problems by a single leader. Action learning lays the same stress on the learning and development of individuals and the team as it does on the solving of problems, for smarter and more experienced the group becomes in the process, the quicker and better will be its decision-making and action-taking capabilities.

3. How Action Learning Helps Individuals? Enhance personal effectiveness and productivity Learn from individual experience Enhance personal leadership and soft skills Develop self-confidence and assertiveness Develop the courage to speak up and encourage others to do the same Develop emotional intelligence, self-awareness and adaptability How Action Learning helps Organizations? Augment business performance at all levels Quickly solve urgent and significant business challenges Achieve a substantial ROI on organization improvement projects Become a learning organization Develop a culture of staff engagement, involvement and performance Establish effective succession planning by creating highly qualified professionals for promotion to executive leadership positions.