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General Electric’s Executive Action Learning Programmes

In: Business Driven Action Learning

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  • Stephen Mercer

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TRAINING and development magazines for the past several years have been featuring articles on an executive education process known as Action Learning. Management ‘gurus’ from academia and consulting have been boasting about their success in achieving new levels of leadership development with their ‘new action learning programmes’. In fact, the concept is over fifty years old, and many companies have been using it successfully for years. The methods used to conduct action learning programmes are not particularly complex, however the most impactful programmes – those that not only develop the participants’ leadership and business skills, but also deliver tangible results to the company – require a significant commitment of senior management sponsorship and involvement, as well as a thorough yet flexible planning and implementation process.

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  • Stephen Mercer, 2000. "General Electric’s Executive Action Learning Programmes," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Yury Boshyk (ed.), Business Driven Action Learning, chapter 4, pages 42-54, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-28586-6_4
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230285866_4
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