Action Learning—Organization Development

Solutions in Real Time

Action learning has quietly become one of the most powerful problem-solving—as well as team and organizational development—tools to be used all over the world. Companies as diverse as Exxon, General Electric, TRW, Motorola, Arthur Andersen, General Motors, the U.S. Army, and British Airways use action learning to develop their global executives, identify strategic competitive advantages, reduce operating costs, create performance management systems, and as the foundation for evolving into learning organizations.

And yet action learning is not utilized in most organizations. Why? Primarily because most people are unfamiliar with the basic concepts and capabilities of action learning. Secondly, some managers are unwilling ...