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Action-Learning based leadership development using entangled-trios

Mike Cardus

Cross-Functional Collaboration – Action-learning based leadership development. Instead of pulling new and experienced supervisors into a series of classes and lectures, we wanted to engage in action-learning. The approach combines vertical leadership development with an Action Learning philosophy.

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Action Learning: A Recipe For Success

Marshall Goldsmith

I have observed one leadership development process that builds leaders and helps companies make money at the same time - action learning. After seeing how action learning worked at GE and IBM, I am surprised that more companies don't do it. Action learning is a structured process with four essential elements: 1.

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Ask a Great Leadership Development Question - Get a Free Book!

Great Leadership By Dan

Questions should be of potential interest to most readers, not specific personal advice. leadership advice leadership questions' Send me your question, and if selected, I’ll answer it in a post, or point to a previous post or posts. If I don’t know the answer, I’ll ask an expert in my network (citing the source with links of course).

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Winners Are Born In Difficult Times

Tanveer Naseer

Many organizations claim to be using some of the theories above, such as Action Learning, but are actually not. To keep it simple, they have adapted the experiential learning process to be a test on an actual problem solving exercise, rather than giving the participants mandate to actually solve a problem or innovate in real time.

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Great Leaders Make Decisions | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Furthermore, if your company isn’t leveraging action learning to develop leaders, fuel innovation, foster collaboration, and catalyze growth then you are missing a substantial opportunity. My message is a simple one…stop pondering and pontificating make a decision and take action.

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You Bear Sole Responsibility for Your Circumstances

Frank Sonnenberg Online

Do you accept responsibility for your actions, learn from the experience, and move on? [pinit count=”horizontal”]. Or do you go into denial, sweep the problem under the rug, and find someone else to blame? The truth is that you bear sole responsibility for your circumstances.

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10 BIG Development Goals for Leaders for 2012

Great Leadership By Dan

I learned about this from Steve Farber, who authored a book by the same name. The idea is to pick someone – sort of a mentee – but instead of just offering a little mentoring advice to bring them along to your level – make a long-term commitment to help that person become even better than you.

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