Richard Hale - Learning Organization Article to be Published

I am delighted to announce that I have an article due to published in 2012 in the Learning Organization journal.  This builds on a presentation I gave to the Etisalat Eye on Government Conference in Abu Dhabi earlier this year which focused on the Knowledge Economy.  I will publish the links to this article as soon as it is published but here are the key areas covered:

• the basis of the Action Learning Question method to support talent and leadership development
• examples and endorsements from corporate organisational leaders
• the application of the action learning approach to support the development of a new professional qualification for the outsourcing sector
• the case for using such approach in the new knowledge economy context where the ability to learn is as important as the content
• developing intellectual capital in organisations
• methods for sharing knowledge and learning within and between organisations.

The editorial referee has said ahead of publication:

“This paper has style and while unpretentious in terms of traditional academic content has a very readable yet powerful narrative that takes readers on your experiential 'journey' and culminates in a very appropriate 'conclusion' that gives readers something valuable to take away.  Great work.  

It addresses the notion of Organisational Learning with a some interesting fresh insights even while relying on a true and tested Action Learning approachIt is clear from the sources used that there is a sound and robust knowledge of the field embedded in this paper - refreshing!!!

  It is clear that there is a strong theoretical base to the analyses of the author's practices in facilitating AL (and indeed to the practices themselves)

.  I really enjoyed the narrative style of this paper. I wish more authors would get off their boring academic backsides and started writing like this in a very informative, reader friendly style . The narrative is not just interesting, it is academic, yet flows nicely and paints a great picture about Action Learning in dynamic organizational environments.”

If you would like to discuss with me how to support organisational learning, professional development, talent/leadership  identification & retention contact me on hale1@me.com and follow me on twitter @richardhale...