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Developing an Action Learning Way of Working within a Leadership Context in Higher Education: Barriers and Enablers
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Trantom, John – Action Learning: Research and Practice, 2013
This account of practice considers action learning within an accredited leadership course at a post-1992 university. It outlines a more individualistic approach than that envisioned by Reg Revans and questions how this technique, inherited from a Staff Development colleague, could potentially be improved.
Descriptors: Barriers, Leadership, Foreign Countries, Staff Development
Reflections on a Failed Action Learning Intervention
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Oliver, John – Action Learning: Research and Practice, 2008
This paper reflects on the failure of a recent action learning intervention with a UK television company. The aim of the project was to gain insight into the reasons why the viewing figures of their factual programming channels were in decline and to develop a new strategy enabled by the action learning methodology. Unfortunately, this…
Descriptors: Intervention, Experiential Learning, Methods, Problems
The Nokia Story of Using Action Learning
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Ropponen, Timo – Action Learning: Research and Practice, 2008
Nokia is the world leader in mobility, driving the transformation and growth of the converging Internet and communications industries. A truly global business, Nokia makes a wide range of mobile devices and provides people with experiences in music, navigation, video, television, imaging, games and business mobility through these devices. Nokia…
Descriptors: Experiential Learning, Organizational Development, Internet, Telecommunications