SEEING WHAT’S INVINCIBLE PART 2
SEEING WHAT’S INVINCIBLE PART 2 Who knows how life will unfold? The future is always a mystery; however, that’s not a reason not to practice being available to that mystery. In fact, because I have done a lot of practice I now realize it has helped me relax and engage in this natural unfolding Read […]
WHY IS JUMBO VISMA THE EXAMPLE OF A HIGH PERFORMING ACTION LEARNING TEAM? (PART 2)
Learning from what goes well is the fourth element of seven, which I describe, following the success of Jumbo Visma’s cycling team. My previous blog was about the importance of learning from what went wrong. So now the opposite. The question that immediately comes to mind is: How (or when) does a team learn more […]
DIALOGUE AND CONNECTION THROUGH ACTION LEARNING
It begins with a simple conversation between Action Learning coach Hou Shaohua and his friend Zhao Shuping about Action Learning. After a serious discussion in April 2021 ,they realized that Action Learning may help Generation Z and young people born after 1995 out of the confusion of life and work. Read More
Specialist in conflict mediation and president of WIAL Brazil, Magali Lopes launches a book on Action Learning, pointing out how human capacities for dialogue and connection are powerful.
The book points out how human capacities for dialogue and connection are powerful tools to generate more empathy and results in communities, organizations and even in the country. Read More
CULTURE CHANGE? NOT WITHOUT ACTION LEARNING
What is culture? I recently reread Edgar Schein’s seminal book “Organizational Culture and Leadership”1. Schein identifies culture as “a pattern of shared basic assumptions learned by a group as it solved its problems of external adaptation and internal integration, which has worked well enough to be considered valid and, therefore, to be taught to new […]
THE PANDEMIC PURSUIT: A POST-GRADUATE CALC’S TIMELY TALE
THE PANDEMIC PURSUIT: A POST-GRADUATE CALC’S TIMELY TALE As someone who loves to learn and to take action, you can imagine the immediate curiosity I had when I first heard about Action Learning. My colleagues who have had the chance to participate in Action Learning sessions spoke about it with much enthusiasm, but when asked […]
SAFETY AS A TEAM PROCESS: AN ACTION LEARNING PERSPECTIVE ON EXPERIENCING AND REPORTING SOCIAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL SAFETY AS A TEAM PROCESS
Professional Action Learning Coach Christoph Maria Ravesloot from WIAL Netherlands specializes in working for teams with trauma blocking the team development. The first step is to make the safety in the team negotiable and get it to the attention and care of the team. He wrote a blog on that theme from two action learning […]
WHY IS JUMBO VISMA THE EXAMPLE OF A HIGH PERFORMING ACTION LEARNING TEAM?
Over the summer I took a month off for vacation. I managed to distance myself from my work quite well. But ignoring sports successes is impossible for me. In 2021, it was TeamNL at the Olympic Games, but in 2022 it was the performance of the Jumbo Visma team during the Tour de France that […]
SEEING WHAT’S INVISIBLE PART 1
When these invitations show up to write for the WIAL Newsletter my first sense is that I really have nothing to tell anyone. So, why not use this opportunity for some hard thinking to organize my ideas on how some of my practices may be showing up to help me to see beneath the surface […]
ACTION LEARNING IS A SYSTEMIC TEAM COACHING APPROACH
Given the current and growing interest in team coaching among a wide range of organizations, it will be increasingly important to highlight action learning as a systemic team coaching approach, in addition to its value as a group coaching and problem-solving methodology. While there are many flavors of Action Learning, the single-problem approach developed by […]