L = P + Q
Featured in the Developing Teams: The Leader's Role training manual
By Aileen Goodman & Caroline Love
Category: Team Building
Credit price: 4 download credits (Single user)
Learning is about gaining new skills and knowledge and making sense of these in our everyday lives, both as individuals and in groups. Action learning has become well known as a way of enabling people to tackle work problems by focusing on productive interaction with others, in teams and across networks. This activity uses the ideas of action learning and gives team leaders the opportunity to try out a mini action learning set.
Action learning has become well known as a way of enabling people to tackle work problems by focusing on the productive interaction with others in teams and across networks. This activity enables team leaders to recognise how action learning can contribute to team learning and development. Participants work in pairs on a trust-building exercise, using structured questions. Small groups then use briefing handouts to run a mini action learning set which includes a learning log. There is then a full-group review of what happened, and completion of a second learning log on what was learned and its application in the workplace.
Who is it for: This training activity is intended for use by trainers with team leaders to enable them to recognise the contribution action learning sets can make to learning and development.
| Resource Type: | Activity |
| Min Group Size: | 4 |
| Max Group Size: | 20 |
| Typical Duration: | 02:35:00 |
| No of Pages: | 25 |
Resources: View standard resources for Fenman training activities
Additional resources: Photocopying paper in 3 different colours.
Purpose: This training activity is intended for use by trainers with team leaders to enable them to recognise how action learning sets can contribute to the learning and development of their work teams, and how to support action learning sets. It can also be used as part of a programme on Developing Teams: The Leader's Role, Team Communications, Team Development, and Problem Solving and Decision Making. It can be a useful start to an Orgianisational Development initiative on action learning or could be used for a programme on Knowledge Management or Personal Development.
Download the training activity, L = P + Q as featured in the Fenman training manual; Developing Teams: The Leader's Role