Binding: Paperback
Description: Action Learning is based on the simple idea that leaders and managers learn best by working together in a group helping each other find solutions to real work problems through discussions. Facilitating Action Learning is a clear concise and straightforward guide to this well - established leadership and management development technique. The role of the facilitator is to provide guidance in the action facilitation process. In this practical guide Mike Pedler and Christine Abbott present a new threefold model of the facilitator's role - as initiator set adviser and facilitator of organizational learning. Supported by many real life cases and practical examples this superbly practical book shows you how - as a manager business coach trainer or facilitator - you can add to your repertoire of skills and abilities and enhance your effectiveness as a leader and developer. Suitable as the course text for ILM Level 5 and 7 qualifications in Action Learning Facilitation." A 'must read book providing a very practical method and approach for all those interested and passionate about helping people help themselves and in optimizing Action Learning." Dr Yury Boshyk Chairman The Global Executive Learning Network and the Annual Global Forum on Executive Development and Business Driven Action Learning Canada" This book best reflects my lived experience of integrating learning and change in a large complex organisation; reading it was like coming home!" Mandy Chivers Assistant Chief Executive Mersey Care NHS Trust UK" This is a superb well - crafted book. The balance it achieves between conveying the spirit of action learning while providing concrete and practical tools is exemplary." Bob Dick independent scholar Australia" With this book Christine and Mike have brought a significant maturity to the field of action learning. This book will go some way in helping action learning advisors improve their craft. An important contribution." Professor Jeff Gold Leeds Business School UK" Pedler and Abbott have done a masterful job in presenting and analyzing the wide array of roles and responsibilities that one can undertake in facilitating action learning groups." Michael Marquardt President World Institute for Action Learning US a" Pedler and Abbot pack lifetimes of experience into this book - which shine through in the depth breadth and practicality of its coverage. Reflective tools accompany the reader throughout to help practitioners develop their own thinking and practice of Action Learning. This is a must - have for both practitioner and scholar resource libraries!" Victoria J. Marsick Professor Columbia University Teachers College New York US a" The authors have written a book that is engaging inspiring and practical - a book to make you think also about learning relationships as constructionist practice; which they put forth as the correct approach and warn against action learning for power influence and dominance." Paul Olson" This is an extremely significant contribution to understanding and developing practices in action learning. It will add value provide direction and stimulate practitioners and academics in equal measure." Brian Milsom University of Hull UK
Title: Facilitating Action Learning: A Practitioner's Guide
Author(s): Abbott Christine
Publisher: Open University Press
Barcode: 9780335245970
Pages: 216 Pages
Publication Date: 1/1/2013
Category: Industrial Or Vocational Training