Action Learning Certificate

Audience

This workshop is designed for learning and performance professionals who are involved in one or more of the following areas:

• Leadership development
• Executive coaching
• Team building and facilitation
• Project management
• Organizational change and development
• Strategic planning
• Implementing action learning programs and projects.

About this Program

Action Learning is a process that involves a small group working on real problems, taking action, and learning while doing so. A powerful management tool that creates dynamic opportunities for individuals, teams, leaders and organizations to successfully adapt, learn and innovate, action learning can transform the way you and your organization use learning to solve problems and develop employees.

This two-day program helps participants understand how their own actions and experiences can improve performance and will demonstrate why action learning is effective in solving problems, building teams, developing leaders, and creating learning organizations. Discover the six essential elements for successful action learning programs, explore the steps and processes of action learning, and practice coaching action learning groups. The two days will include four demo sessions. All participants will participate as Action Learning group members and up to three participants will have the opportunity to experience coaching an Action Learning session. ASTD offers the Action Learning Certificate Program in partnership with the World Institute for Action Learning-USA. This workshop may be used as the Foundations course for the WIAL-USA Action Learning Certification. If you are interested in learning more about certification in action learning, please visit WIAL’s website at http://www.wial-usa.org/training/certificationSchedule.shtml

Participants of this program will learn to:

• provide a basic understanding of action learning.
• demonstrate how to use action learning as a tool for problem solving and leadership development.
• provide an overview for using action learning in your organization.
• describe the role of an action learning coach.

Learning Objectives

After the workshop, participants will be able to:

• Understand and demonstrate how and why action learning is effective in solving problems, building teams, developing leaders, and creating learning organizations.
  
  

• Apply the six elements and two ground rules of action learning as well as the questioning and reflection processes of action learning.

•  Lead and facilitate an action learning group as an action learning coach.

• Introduce action learning into their organization or as part of their consulting practice.