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Please try again later. Explains the art and science of Action Kindle Edition Verified Purchase. Explains the art and science of Action Learning in a comprehensive, lucid and practical manner. Must read for practitioners and scholars alike. Most helpful customer reviews on Amazon. Understanding Action Learning by O'Neil and Marsick is a fantastic introduction and application of innovations for learning. The essentials have not changed since Reg Revans- a real problem, and a real implementation of a solution- and often including cross functional teams or perspectives- and the real benefit has not changed- when real solutions work to real problems- organizations, societies, businesses, and even offices are improved.
This text is one of the best in covering this complex phenomena- and providing suitable background for people to stop learning about Action Learning- and start implementing their own Action Learning in their own context. The book's major strengths are its readability and applicability. The authors have extensive experience in global applications of Action Learning and provide many examples of how it has been used successfully in different kinds of organizations.
It is probably unrealistic to expect any book to serve as a "cookbook" for implementing AL as it takes on different forms depending on the context; however, the accompanying templates, tools, and strategies could easily be adapted for use in a variety of settings. The multiple real-world examples helped me understand how AL might look in different types of organizations.
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The book provides an excellent overview of AL, and serves as a good resource for people trying to decide if AL is the appropriate approach to use in their workplace. I found the experience-based strategies for success extremely helpful. I also appreciated the emphasis on action learning as a cyclical, continuous process of creating and supporting positive organizational change. Having had the privilege of working with Judy O'Neil in co-designing many different leadership programs, I have used many of the tools included in her book, Understanding Action Learning, for successful results.
Because Action Learning requires a considerable investment in time from the participants and others in the organization, having a very clear goals on the desired outcome is essential. Understanding Action Learning outlines a process to help the program manager design a program that would best fit the needs of the organization. Once the program has been designed, Understanding Action Learning offers a wealth of material to enable the participants to really learn from their experience in the program. What I have found to be especially helpful are the tools around helping participants reflect and take action on the project work as it unfolds.
In addition to the materials that I have tested in my own programs, Understanding Action Learning includes other approaches that I have not yet found the opportunity to apply. If others find Action Learning to be an invaluable tool in developing future leaders as I do, then I highly recommend this book as an essential resource to support a successful implementation of an Action Learning program.
Action Learning AL is a popular method for improving organizational effectiveness by learning how to address real problems in real time. Marsick provide a solid introduction to the four AL "schools," or methods. They help you assess whether AL is right for your firm and, if so, which school of thinking you should choose. They offer good information and give you the basics of getting started with AL.
Their book has a familiar textbook style, with case studies and an appendix offering deeper theory. A hope for the book is in reaching populations previously unexposed to AL by taking advantage of its accessible cross-functional and cross-cultural salience. The Action Learning Pyramid framing and applications are parts of a compelling formula to satisfy organizational wants, including for those who have had their fill of quick-fix pop "solutions.? Areas for further research may include exploration into how AL activities that "overcome narrow mindsets? While too much to expect from this already brimming serving, readers could gain from fleshed-out discussion of the nature of creativity, desired levels of creative achievement by setting, and how AL can help drive such longer-term transformational efforts.
Whether goal-driven leaders, human development professionals, managers, educators, theoreticians, or others, a host of stakeholders seeking performance or understanding can benefit from O'Neil and Marsick's well-paced manual for applying workplace Action Learning programs and principles. Particularly worthwhile for organizations is the authors' putting contemporary meat on the bones of the Action Learning Pyramid paradigm. This taxonomic tool allows for mix-and-match framing of task objective operations and human capital growth in facing and virtual settings, local to global.
The authors' many examples show how AL helps participants act upon assignments by harvesting and applying learning to achieve superior work outcomes. Project and program managers across industry, service, government, and education sectors - informed by Understanding Action Learning - should prove increasingly valuable to their organizations. Thought and practice leaders seeking competitive advantage in these pencil sharpening times should partake of this book's moveable feast. Cognitive processes in creativity.
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Drawing on theory from Self-Directed Learning, Learning from Experience, and Transformative Learning, Understanding Action Learning enables the reader to make an informed decision about which approach or combination to use in his or her organization, and provides: Teacher's College Record - Book Review While globalizing practices commonly incorporate outside solutions, contraction-driven deglobalization is whetting organizational appetites to perform with existing resources.
Understanding Action Learning feeds both needs by setting the table for project and people advances in workplace learning and performance. This timely book gives readers a guided menu for assessing wants, determining fits, and implementing Action Learning AL programs and practices.
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It shows how to cost-effectively embed AL skills that can help organizations create generative insights in immediate task objectives and HR development and management. The story of success. Little, Brown and Company. A theory of human motivation. Psychological Review, 50, The emergence of action learning. Teachers College Record, Date Published: January 15, http: AMA also offers customized solutions based on your specific talent development requirements.
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