Business Driven Action Learning: Global Best Practices

Front Matter....Pages i-xvii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
DaimlerChrysler: Global Leadership Development Using Action-Oriented and Distance Learning Approaches....Pages 3-13
Dow:Sustaining Change and Accelerating Growth through Business-Focused Learning....Pages 14-28
DuPont: Business Driven Action Learning to Shift Company Direction....Pages 29-41
General Electric’s Executive Action Learning Programmes....Pages 42-54
Heineken, Shell et al: Twenty Years of Consortium Action Learning – The BOSNO Programme....Pages 55-64
Hoffman La Roche and Boehringer Mannheim – Mission Impossible?: Management Development During a Takeover....Pages 65-75
IBM: Using Business-Driven Action Learning in a Turnaround....Pages 76-90
Johnson & Johnson: Executive Development and Strategic Business Solutions through Action Learning....Pages 91-103
Motorola: Combining Business Projects with Learning Projects....Pages 104-114
Action Learning at Philips Electronics: from Training to Transformation....Pages 115-133
Scancem: ‘What Did We Earn and Learn’? Emerging Markets and Business Driven Action Learning....Pages 134-139
Siemens Management Learning: A Highly Integrated Model to Align Learning Processes with Business Needs....Pages 140-151
Volkswagen: Action Learning and the Development of High Potentials....Pages 152-165
Front Matter....Pages 167-167
Strategic Management by Project Group: Lessons Learned....Pages 169-178
GE Executive Programmes: Checklist and Tools for Action Learning Teams....Pages 179-190
Facilitating Leadership Through High Performance Teamwork Leadership....Pages 191-199
Executive Team Facilitation: Some Observations....Pages 200-205
Organizing the External Business Perspective: The Role of the Country Coordinator in Action Learning Programmes....Pages 206-226
‘Learning the Hard Way’: Creating an Executive Development Opportunity for Learning and Reflection....Pages 227-239
Back Matter....Pages 241-264