Action learning: Part 1

Brian Chandler, associate with leadership consultants Performance 1, believes that when it comes to learning, actions speak louder than words.

Legend has the father of action learning, Reg Revans, sitting in the HQ of the newly nationalised coal industry. In the brave new world that was 1946, people were enthusiastic about modernising what had previously been a collection of individually owned mines with pretty variable standards of this and that. There was talk of improving those standards, talk of training, talk of a University of Coal. Revans decided to see if there were good things happening already - out in the field.