Action Learning Partners helps organizations to accelerate their capability and continually enhance their learning in service of growing their competitive edge and delivering business results and improved performance. Action Learning provides a strongly bottom-line oriented development method as part of a development strategy. It is "learning how to learn" that ensures a business's survival and thriving in an increasingly complex and ambiguous customer environment.
WHAT WE OFFER
Facilitation
We apply a range of engagement methods to the facilitation of leadership and strategic planning meetings and workshops to ensure optimal participation and effective business outcomes.
Change and Engagement
In addition we are qualified and licenced in the use and training of the Executive Arts tools which are a collection of unique change and engagement approaches that help individuals and teams adapt to change more successfully and has proven to create exceptional value for those who have applied them. Strategic support with development of culture change and communication plans and stakeholder engagement
Strategic HR and Organisational Development
Given our strong HR backgrounds we are well positioned to provide the following offerings:
Advising on the talent management strategy for an organisation
Development of career paths and succession planning strategies
Compilation of role profiles
Compilation and implementation of Competency Frameworks
Development of performance management processes and training sessions
Training on competency based interviewing techniques
Learning and Development
We are able to develop a range of learning and training programmes based on the principles of action learning. We are also able to provide and teach coaching to middle to senior management.
In addition we have experience in the methodology of procurement and supply chain as well as access to training content and subject matter experts.
WHO ARE WE
Bernd Schulz
Honours degree in Psychology (UNISA, 2006)
Honours degree in Greek & Semitic Languages (University of Pretoria, 1991)
Tijen Diraz
Master’s Degree in Psychology (University of Witwatersrand, 2003)
Registered Industrial Psychologist with the HPCSA
OUR APPROACH
What Action Learning is about
The Learning Equation L = P + Q, where L = Learning, P = Programmed Knowledge and Q = Questioning Insight
Action learning suggests that only if a man, particularly the expert, can be persuaded to draw a map of his own ignorance, is he likely to develop his full potential
The emphasis must be upon learning, not just the taking of action and this is what distinguishes Action Learning from project team membership
“Action learning is an approach to individual and organisational development. Working in small groups known as ‘sets’, people tackle important organisational issues or problems and learn from their attempts to change things.”
Action learning is subversive, it values everyone, is democratic, stresses questioning and listening, insists on actions, give courage, encourages responsibility and examines everything (Krystyna Weinstein)
It is “recognised ignorance” not “programmed knowledge” that is the key to Action Learning; men start to learn with and from each other, only when they discover that no one knows the answer but all are obliged to find it. – Reg Revans
Action learning takes so long to describe ... because it is so simple
Revans Principle of Insufficient Mandate – Those unable to change themselves cannot change what goes on around them
Action learning is an approach to the development of people in organisations which takes the task as the vehicle for learning.
Action Learning Partners supports the government’s initiative to promote economic and social transformation in a meaningful way. As an Exempt Micro Enterprise (EME) we have attained the status of a Level 4 Contributor.
