Optimizing the Power of Action Learning: Solving Problems and Building Leaders in Real Time

The author brings together 20 best–practice examples and the fundamentals first introduced in his best seller Action Learning in Action to deliver next generation tools and advanced skill techniques to make action learning successful every time in any organization.

From the Inside Flap
Sweeping across the corporate landscape, action learning is one of today‘s most powerful and cost–effective tools for solving problems, developing leaders, building teams, and transforming organizations. And Michael Marquardt is leading the way. For more than a decade, he has helped organizations and governments around the world revolutionize the way they face the challenges of change. Now he calls on his pioneering experiences and the fundamentals introduced in his best–seller ACTION LEARNING IN ACTION to deliver the next–generation tools and techniques to make action learning successful each and every time, in any organization.

Moving action learning from good to great, OPTIMIZING THE POWER OF ACTION LEARNING zeros in on the skills needed to apply its six critical components: the problem; group diversity; a reflective inquiry process; action strategies; individual, team, and organizational learning; the all–important participation of a well–trained action learning coach; and step–by–step procedures for introducing, implementing, and sustaining action learning. Using twenty best–practices examples––including Dow Chemical, Whirlpool, and Deutsche Bank––this comprehensive guidebook builds on the real experiences of thousands of managers in hundreds of companies, explores recent innovations in the field, and demonstrates how the power of action learning can help any organization thrive in today‘s fast–changing global marketplace.

About the Author:

Michael J. Marquardt, Ed.D., an internationally noted educator and consultant, is professor of HRD and Program Director of Overseas Programs at The George Washington University, president of Global Learning Associates, and director of the Global Institute of Action Learning. Author of 15 books including Building the Learning Organization, Action Learning in Action, and Global Teams, he is the recipient of ASTD‘s International Practitioner of the Year Award and an honorary Ph.D. from The International Management Centre at Oxford, England for his work and writings in the field of action learning.