The Action Learning Journey

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The Action Learning Journey

• Kate Cocozza
• Lead Nurse PracticeDevelopment
• NHSGGC

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Learning Outcomes

• Recap on the theory of adult learning
• What is action learning
• What is an action learning set
• The roles of the set members
• What we hope to achieve through action learning

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Adult Learning

• Adults learn best when they are involved in their
  own learning
• Adults who voluntarily choose to learn learn
  more readily

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Action Learning is

• Based on the premise that
• There can be no learning without action and no
  (sober and deliberate) action without learning
  Revans

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Origins Of Action Learning

• Developed by Reg Revans
• Designed to enable individuals to
• learn from experience
• share that experience with others
• have colleagues criticise and advise
• take advice and implement it
• review actions taken and lessons learned

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Action Learning Principles

• Support and Challenge
• Listening
• Reflection
• Asking Questions (not giving advice)
• Feedback give and receive

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Action Learning/Traditional Learning

• Historic cases
• Individual orientation
• Learning about others
• Programmed knowledge
• Planning
• Past orientated
• Low risk
• Passive

• Current real cases
• Group based learning
• Learning about self others
• Questions Programmed knowledge
• Present and future orientated
• Higher risk
• Active

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What does it mean to be involved in action
learning?

• Person joins Action Learning voluntarily
• Subscribe to the ground rules - timing, format,
  confidentiality, acceptable behaviour
• Requires commitment to
• - self awareness
• - to the set and its members
• - to action
• Each person commits to bringing an issue they own
  and want to act on and learn from

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Learning on 3 Levels

• About the issue which is being tackled
• About what is being learned oneself
• About the process of learning itself ie. learning
  to learn

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The Set

• Equal amount of time
• Listen/encourage
• Do not interrupt
• Empathise
• Ask questions
• Respect other individuals

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Presenter

• You think of a task/issue that you face at
  work. Discuss it with the group. Be brief but
  specific.
• What am I trying to do?
• What is stopping me?
• What can I do about it?
• Who knows what Im trying to do
• Who cares?
• Who can help?

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Enabler

• Helps the presenter with their issue. The
  object is to help them define or redefine the
  problem or issue and their relationship in it so
  that they can take steps towards solving it. Use
  open questions.
• How does that make you feel
• What do you think would happen if
• Do you think that
• How would you know that
• What could you do
• How can you

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Things To Avoid In An Action Learning Set

• Do not impose your values, opinions or views
• Dont give advice
• Dont be judgemental
• Dont criticise or trivialise what the person is
  presenting

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Action Learning Allows

• Learning from experience
• Share experiences
• Have colleagues challenge or support
• Take the challenge and implement it
• Review with colleagues the action taken and the
  lessons that are learned