1. Action Learning - a brief revision

2. What is Action Learning?

3. A continuous process of learning and reflection supported by colleagues, with the intention of getting things done.
McGill and Beatty 1998

4. Principles of Action Learning
Adults learn best when they are actually involved in their own learning about a current life situation
Adults who voluntarily choose a learning experience usually learn more readily
Emblen and Gray 1981

5. Six main elements of action learning
The individual - who voluntarily joins the group
The set - a group of people who meet regularly
The issue or task - each person brings that they want to work on
The processes - the challenge, support
The facilitator - who helps the group as it works and learns
The outcome - action and learning
Revans 1991

6. Action Learning allows individuals to:
Learn from experience
Share that experience with others
Have other colleagues challenge and support
Take that challenge and implement it
Review with those colleagues the action taken and the lessons that are learnt.
Revans 1993

7. Learning happens at three levels:
About the issue being tackled
About oneself
About the process of learning itself

8. What happens during an action learning set ?

9. Things to avoid in an action learning set:
Imposing your values and opinions on others
Giving advice
Being judgmental
Criticising or trivialising what the person is presenting

10. It sounds as though you are feeling…. How do you feel about…
It sounds as though you are feeling….. How do you feel about…? What do you think is really going on? What do you think would happen if….? Do you think that….? How would you know if…? What could you do? How can you….?

11. Action Learning
A way of learning from our actions, and what happens to us, and around us, by taking time to question, understand and reflect, to gain insight, and consider how to act in the future.
Weinstein 1999