by Ron Passfield | Oct 17, 2013 | Action Learning, News, Resources
I was recently approached by Ortrun Zuber-Skerritt to launch her latest book, Lifelong Action Learning for Community Development: Learning and Development for a Better World, with her co-author, Richard Teare. The occasion for the launch was the Australasian...
by Ron Passfield | Jul 8, 2013 | Action Learning, All Blogs
In the video embedded in this post, Reg Revans, the Founder of Action Learning, explains the origins of action learning and focuses strongly on the need for questioning insight. He was 83 years of age at the time of this interview and had been using action learning in...
by Jane Woodland | Jun 24, 2013 | All Blogs, Knowledge Retention, Knowledge Transfer, Video
Knowledge sharing needs to be initiated by the manager as part of business-as-usual rather than waiting until there is an executive edict or sophisticated knowledge management system in place. The manager is close to the action and is the one who is likely to be the...
by Ron Passfield | Jun 6, 2013 | All Blogs, Learning and Development, Organisational Culture
In a recent breakfast forum, we continued our discussion of learning and development in times of limited budgets. One of the key challenges raised in the discussion was the issue of sustainability – sustaining a learning and development culture in times of...
by Ron Passfield | Apr 9, 2013 | Action Learning, All Blogs, Learning and Development
In times of monetary constraint, it is critical to ensure that your organisation achieves a real return on investment (ROI) from training and development activities. Much has been written about the visible ROI of action learning in terms of improved productivity,...
by Jane Woodland | Apr 2, 2013 | All Blogs, Knowledge Transfer, Video
Something happened when I was managing that struck me about the importance of knowledge sharing, knowledge management and knowledge transfer and the value of local wisdom developed through organisational history. I’ll share the story with you. We were working in a...
