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A safe place to stay sharp: action learning meets cooperative inquiry in the service of NHS OD capacity building

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  • James Traeger
  • Carolyn Norgate

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This is an account of practice. It explores the meeting point between action learning and action research, as a way of doing capacity building in organisational development (OD) in the NHS in the UK. The authors were part of a short cooperative inquiry (Heron, J. 1996. Co-operative Inquiry: Research into the Human Condition . London: Sage). The research found that it was vital in such challenging environments as the current NHS scene to have a 'safe place to stay sharp.' They outline here what the qualities of such a space might be for themselves, and, following the notion of parallel process (what we experience may be symptomatic of the wider system), for other OD practitioners in the NHS.

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  • James Traeger & Carolyn Norgate, 2015. "A safe place to stay sharp: action learning meets cooperative inquiry in the service of NHS OD capacity building," Action Learning: Research and Practice, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 12(2), pages 197-207, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:alresp:v:12:y:2015:i:2:p:197-207
    DOI: 10.1080/14767333.2015.1049456
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