Leadership Development in Practice, 2nd Edition

7ACTION LEARNING SETS

DOI: 10.4324/9781003341727-8

Introduction

I have been creating spaces for ‘skilful group discussion’ (Thornton, 2016: 6), where groups and teams come together to make sense of what they find themselves doing in organisational settings, for almost two decades now. And as I reflect upon what I have been doing, as a facilitator of these spaces/sessions during my career, it is tempting to split the development of my thinking/practice into three very neat phases – before, during, and after the DMan. However, this would merely be a convenient post-rationalisation of what was a much more fragmented and fragmentary development process. A more accurate description is that for many years I have been endeavouring to help individuals, ...