Twin Cities consultant, Karen Davis, has been a member of an Action Learning peer coaching group for consultants for six months. But I have never participated in a program that was as personally empowering and directly useful. Materials from courses, seminars and workshops are rarely used, rather they just sit, collecting dust on learners' shelves. In these ongoing communities, learners support each other to actually apply materials from the one-shot training sessions.
Learners also benefit from ongoing feedback with each other.
To understand these problems, click here . For more information about Action Learning, click here . Coaching benefits and skills can be spread much more quickly. Coaching can be less costly because members coach each other. Group coaching more closely resembles the real team-based nature of work.