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Action Learning in Action
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Action Learning in Action

Transforming Problems and People for World-Class

Michael J. Marquardt
Davies-Black Publishing, 1999

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Editorial Rating

5

Qualities

  • Analytical
  • Well Structured
  • For Beginners

Recommendation

Action learning has been around since the 1930s, but it can be used to improve organizations today. Michael J. Marquardt shows how. Basically, four to eight people work together to solve a problem, reflect on what they learn as they proceed and then implement their solution. Marquardt offers a clear step-by-step process and a few case histories. His focus on the original methodology may be a little heavy, but he aims to distinguish action-learning groups from multi-problem-oriented teams and work groups. The book is well organized, but if you already know about team building, leadership development and learning organizations, you’ll be walking on familiar ground. That’s why getAbstract recommends this book either to those who are so immersed in group learning that they find new nuance in everything in the field, or to those who are fresh to the subject, who will benefit particularly from the helpful charts, lists and illustrations.

Take-Aways

  • Action learning involves learning and acting simultaneously to solve problems or improve processes.
  • An action-learning program has six interactive components: a problem, the group, the questioning and reflection process, the resolution to take action, the commitment to learning and the facilitator.
  • An action-learning program is most useful in problem solving, organizational learning, team building, leadership development and professional career development.

About the Author

Michael J. Marquardt , Ed.D., professor of human resource development at George Washington University, is president of Global Learning Associates. He has worked as a consultant for nearly 30 years, with clients such as Marriott, the Peace Corps, Arthur Andersen, Singapore Airlines and the governments of Indonesia and Jamaica. He is the author of numerous management and organizational development articles and books, including Building the Learning Organization.

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