GAIN THE ACTION LEARNING EDGE

Action Learning (AL) has been around and widely used for the best part of fifty years by some of the world's leading business educators and most far-sighted organizations, plus individuals simply looking for solutions to their personal problems. AL is a win/win individual and company approach to learning and development which at the same time is capable of resolving significant business, organizational and social problems. It is a form of learning through experience, "by doing", where the classroom is one's job environment or personal surroundings. AL emphasizes personal responsibility for learning, although supportive but challenging learning partnerships are made available. Nothing else feels how action learning feels. No traditional training program can prepare a person for the first time they fire someone, or are blocked by a politically motivated colleague, or are confronted with an angry customer. In the end, we can only learn about it by doing it, and then reflecting carefully on what happened, making sense of the lessons, and working through how the learning can be built on and used next time around.

Since the mid-90's The International Foundation for Action Learning - Canada (IFALC) has been at the forefront in the introduction and implementation of AL in Canada, and internationally in collaboration with other national IFAL Chapters and AL communities. In 2003 IFALC broadened its role from an information source to a service provider. In this new capacity IFALC will make available AL consultancy resources, AL groups ("Sets"), AL facilitator ("Set Advisor") certification programmes, as well as continuing to sponsor AL workshops, conferences and research.

Together with its worldwide partners IFALC has the knowhow and experience to help you readily become familiar with the processes and benefits of AL, and to assist you in successfully implementing or upgrading your AL-related initiatives. If you or your enterprise anticipates undertaking Action Learning, or optimizing your usage of this important approach, why not check us out?