ABSTRACT
Action learning is currently applied in many organisations today. Action learning has four main elements. First, each person joins and takes part voluntarily. Second, each person must own an organisational task, problem or opportunity on which they want to act. Third, because we are much more likely to succeed with the help of friends, sets or groups of action learners meet to help each other think through the issues and create options. Fourth, take action and learn from the effects of that action. There are many small group initiatives in and around organisations that may well be engaging in action and learning in this way. These include "self-help groups", "support groups", "learning sets", "self-development groups", "productivity improvement meetings", "quality circles" and so on. It is not important what a group is called; the acid test is whether the people concerned are helping each other to take action on their pressing concerns and learning from this work.
