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Business-Driven Action Learning

Yury Boshyk

The Global Executive Learning Network

BUSINESS-DRIVEN ACTION LEARNING (BDAL) is an approach used by companies and organizations to engage their people in exploring and resolving critical challenges and opportunities, while at the same time enhancing their leadership development and self-awareness. It integrates aspects of project-based action learning, which appeared on the organizational development scene in the late 1980s with traditional action learning as developed in the United Kingdom by Reg Revans and others.

Action learning relies on sets, or groups, of no more than six people ...