Business Driven Action Learning

✍ Scribed by Yury (ed) Boshky

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 1999
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 283
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The contributors to this book are from US and European multinationals and consultants who have been directly involved in integrating strategic business issues on the agendas of their top executives with the education and development of their best people. They have done this through business driven action learning executive programs and processes. The key assumption of business driven action learning is that in today's competitive environment, individual and organizational learning must be greater than the rate of change. Business driven action learning is used by companies to explore and implement business opportunities, gain useful insights from outside the company, change company direction and culture, and develop both individual and group learning skills of high potentials and senior executives. This volume has gathered together some of the world's best practices. Business driven action learning differs from the more classical forms of action learning developed by the Reg Revans school in the UK, and later by the action reflection approach, because it ensures that a business focus is maintained while at the same time integrating individual executive development and teamwork skills. Among the company experiences described in detail are those from DaimlerChrysler, Dow, Dupont, General Electric, Heineken, Hoffman La Roche, IBM, Johnson & Johnson, Motorola, Philips, Shell, Siemens and Volkswagen among others. The second part of the book deals with facilitating and enhancing business driven action learning and includes some checklists and guidelines on coordination and teamwork. A comprehensive guide to sources and further reading on action learning completes the volume.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
Preface and Acknowledgements......Page 8
Introduction: Business Driven Action Learning: The Key Elements......Page 12
Part I: Business Driven Action Learning: Multinational Company Experiences......Page 20
1 DaimlerChrysler: Global Leadership Development using Action-Oriented and Distance-Learning Techniques......Page 22
2 Dow: Sustaining Change and Accelerating Growth Through Business Focused Learning......Page 33
3 DuPont: Business Driven Action Learning to Shift Company Direction......Page 48
4 General Electric's Executive Action Learning Programmes......Page 61
5 Heineken, Shell et al: Twenty Years of Consortium Action Learning......Page 74
6 Hoffman La Roche and Boehringer Mannheim: Mission Impossible? – Executive Development During a Takeover......Page 84
7 IBM: Using Business Driven Action Learning in a Turnaround......Page 95
8 Johnson & Johnson: Executive Development and Strategic Business Solutions through Action Learning......Page 110
9 Motorola: Combining Business Projects with Learning Projects......Page 123
10 Philips and Action Learning: From Training to Transformation......Page 134
11 Scancem: 'What Did We Earn and Learn?' Emerging Markets and Business Driven Action Learning......Page 153
12 Siemens Management Learning: A Highly Integrated Model to Align Learning Processes with Business Needs......Page 159
13 Volkswagen: Action Learning and The Development of High Potentials......Page 171
Part II: Facilitating and Enhancing Business-Driven Action Learning: Guidelines on Coodination and Teamwork......Page 186
14 Strategic Management by Project Group: Lessons Learned......Page 188
15 General Electric Executive Learning Programmes: Checklist and Tools for Action Learning Teams......Page 198
16 Facilitating Leadership Development through High Performance Teamwork......Page 210
17 Executive Team Facilitation: Some Observations......Page 219
18 Organising the External Business Perspective: The Role of the Country Coordinator in Action Learning Programmes......Page 225
19 'Learning the Hard Way': Creating an Executive Development Opportunity for Learning and Reflection......Page 246
Recommended and Referenced Sources......Page 260
About the Contributors......Page 270
Index......Page 278