Action Learning Sets bring experiential group-based learning to the work place. They create an opportunity for participants to find sustainable solutions to enduring workplace challenges. Through monthly meetings of 5-6 people over 6 weeks, participants explore the challenges they face with input from peers in similar roles in different departments or organisations, thus bringing novel perspectives into an organisation.
Careful facilitation creates trust, respect and collaboration between group members and this is the key-stone for change. There is a focus on action between sessions and participants will tend to develop a theme that they will work on over the course of the six month period of the set. The principle if that real learning comes from practical application and experience. Participants identify and try out their own solutions having solicited supportive and yet also challenging input from the group. After 6 sessions it is possible that the group can continue as a self-facilitated group.
I trained in Action Learning Sets in 2007 and have facilitated sets for a wide range of value-driven organisations. I also draw on my experience of business coaching, organisational change facilitation and psychotherapy.