ABSTRACT
A range of challenges face people who become the members of an action learning set. They include the challenges of: learning to cope without a trainer, linking learning with work, learning from colleagues, reflecting, and keeping going. For many set members, being a member of an action learning set can be a strange experience. Their typical experience will be sitting in a training centre or classroom with other learners and a trainer. For many people the world of work and the world of learning are not linked. The former is the arena of acting and doing, while the latter is concerned with reflecting and conceptualising. The choice of the project or issue by set members and their sponsors within their organisations can help to link these two spheres. As the set gets going, the facilitator role tends to move from energising and speeding things up, to reflecting and slowing things down.
