Action Learning in Action

Chapter 1, talks about the changes in today’s society. With technology and globalization both having transformed our lives and the world in which we work in, we either get on board with it or get left behind. Organizations and Individuals must get adapt to these changes if they seek to participate in creative and meaningful ways with their changing environment. In order for companies to survive during these changes they have to find ways to fight (act) and drain (learn) simultaneously. Organizations that operate or change too slowly will not survive for long during the first century. Action learning for many organizations has become one of the most powerful action-oriented, problem solving tools as well for team approaching in order for them to operate better. With today’s many demands and so little time to focus on a one on one, corporations must find ways to get everything together in one session and begin the work in order to survive this world’s new change and be successful. Chapter 2 shows us the six essential elements of effective action learning. In chapter 1 we talked about the importance of action learning during our changing environment with technology and globalization. Action learning is very important and its programs are built around six distinct interactive components. Below are the six distinct interactive components that are to be followed, *A problem *the group *the questioning and reflection process *the commitment to taking action *the commitment to learning and *the facilitator. Action learning, when all its essentials elements are incorporated, has tremendous, far-reaching power and strength. Chapter 3 in this chapter, it describes how an actual action learning group operates. This is a proceeding of the previous chapter’s successful action learning program following the six components. The following questions are questions used in chapter 3 to show how the action learning group operates. *what are the different types of action learning