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Here are some examples of how IFALC's know-how is made accessible through workshops:

1.      Action Learning: Old Wine in New Bottles

2.      Finding The Best Answers To The Right Questions When We Have So Little Time!

Please contact IFALC to explore these and other workshop topics

ACTION LEARNING

An Old Wine in New Bottles

A Two-day Workshop

QUESTIONS LEARNING PRACTITIONERS ARE ASKING:

·         What are the six and more distinct forms of Action Learning (AL) currently exciting interest?

·         How will these different alternatives help you to …

o        enhance motivation and facilitate change?

o        manage uncertainty in conditions of ambiguity and complexity?

o        promote innovation and overcome workplace-performance blockages?

o        capitalize on knowledge management, communities of practice, e-learning and the like?

THIS WORKKSHOP WILL GIVE YOU THE OPPORTUNITY TO:

·         Review the concept of AL and its potential to improve performance

·         Become familiar with at least six forms of AL and reasons for their usage

·         Practice behavioural and process techniques appropriate to these variations

·         Participate in AL groups on topics of unique interest to workshop participants

·         Relate the AL variants to emerging business initiatives and new organizational theories

WHO SHOULD ATTEND:

This workshop is designed for all those who are interested in understanding and applying Action Learning to enhance personal and/or organizational performance and work-life quality. It will appeal to both experienced and inexperienced Action Learning practitioners alike with its hands-on exploration of AL variants, and its examination of the relevance of Action Learning to topics such as leadership, strategic planning, Internet-based AL groups, and deployment of knowledge management. The significance of Action Learning to the exploitation of emerging organizational ideas e.g. complexity theory, will also be addressed. This workshop will be limited to twenty participants to maximize interactive opportunities.

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FINDING THE BEST ANSWERS

TO THE RIGHT QUESTIONS

WHEN WE HAVE SO LITTLE TIME!

Workshop for a Group of Individuals or a Team

"Successful organizations fail in many different ways, but they share one underlying cause: a failure to reflect - reflection is strategic!" ..... Michael Hammer

"Reflection is indispensable" ..... Kouzes and Posner

"Unless we know our own strengths and weaknesses, know what we want to do, and why we want to do it, we cannot succeed in any but the most superficial sense of the word. Acquiring this self-knowledge demands reflection" ..... Warren Bennis

"In our fast moving new economy, we must be skilled at speedy proficient reflection in action" .....Peter Smith

WHAT THIS WORKSHOP IS ABOUT

As individuals and organizations we are awash in assumptions - it is critical that we explore and question these suppositions to surface real insights for organizational viability and our own learning and development. But how do we know what questions to ask? And how do we get the best answers? And what if we are always pushed for time? The ability to think things through and de-brief experiences at a non-trivial level is called reflection, and it is increasingly recognized as essential to effective learning, leadership, and general performance. Unfortunately reflective practice is often poorly understood, viewed as "nice to do", and busy people "simply don't have a minute to spare for it". This highly interactive workshop blends participants' own experiences with dynamic learning-cycle frameworks, and reflective tools and practices, to help participants see the necessity for, and become much more competent at, speedy proficient individual and collaborative reflection.

WHO CAN BENEFIT

All employees, and particularly managers and leaders, who want to improve personal and organizational performance by enhancing their ability to find the best answers to the right questions even when time is short

PARTICIPANT LEARNING GOALS

  1. To explore participants' experiences in "finding the best answers to the right questions" and to understand why this activity is so critically important in today's business contexts
  2. To grasp the fundamentals of reflection as defined by authorities such as Schon and Mezirow, and to explore the serious issues that arise in its traditional practice
  3. To identify and compare the merits of various methods for assessing reflective capability
  4. To comprehend the relevance of reflection to learning and development
  5. To clarify why reflection is so necessary to achieve effective action, particularly in conditions of uncertainty and risk
  6. To define the performance platform crucial to timely proficient reflective practice
  7. To familiarize participants with application of a portfolio of tools and processes for speedy effective reflection in action

TOPICS RE: REFLECTION

1.      Business context

2.      Fundamentals

3.      Practical concerns

4.      Importance

5.      Performance framing

6.      Tools and processes

LEARNING METHODS

1.      Explanation of concepts

2.      Group dialogue

3.      Individual and group exercises

4.      Application to real-life situations

ADMINISTRATIVE DETAILS

1.      In House

2.      Duration 0.5, 1, or 2 days

3.      <= 20 participants

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