1. Action Learning Intentional learning from life, learning by doing
May 2016 Learning Lab

2. Introductions – Kathleen Vaughan
YALI Facilitator Cohorts 3 to 7, Self-Awareness,
Design Driven Entrepreneurship Resource, Cohort 5
Based in Nairobi, Kenya

3. Introductions – Participant Community

4. In your chat window, please share the following:
Name, Country
A specific learning goal for the call
Your contribution to others
Example:
1) Kathy Vaughan, facilitator
2) sparking “learningful conversations” within the region
3) Being a connector

5. Our Roadmap Head-Heart-Hands: A leadership learning framework
How we learn?
What is Action Learning (or Learning by Doing)
Tool: Experience & Skills Matrix
The importance of Reflection
The importance of Questions
Live Coaching
Taking the learning home

6. A leadership learning framework

7. Training – Coaching & Mentoring – In life/from experience
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Training – Coaching & Mentoring – In life/from experience

8. 3 Reasons to learn from experience
Personal Life Experiences Provide Psychological Strength
Personal Relationships Provide support for Handling Leadership Challenges
Personal Loves provide Motivation & Opportunities to Learn Leadership Skills

9. Learning In Action
What is one interpersonal challenge you are facing in your day-to-day work/experience?
What challenges in your personal life is similar?
What actions did you take to address the situation? What skills did you use?
What did you learn to translate to your day-to-day challenge?

10. Matching Experiences to Skills & Development
Outside Role & Experience
Leadership Roles & Skills
Planning an important social event
Project management
Parenting
Interpersonal skills; appreciation of differences
Traveling abroad
operating with unfamiliar signals & incomplete information; becoming more comfortable in handling ambiguity
YALI design challenge project
Remote team work; perspective; conflict resolution skills

11. Your Experience & Skills Matrix

12. Learning=Performance+Questioning+Reflection
L=P+Q+R
Learning=Performance+Questioning+Reflection

13. REFLECTION What does the term mean to you?
How is it a habit in your life?
How might it achieve your leadership ambitions?

14. Good questions prompt reflection
Allow us to reflect, to listen, to be creative, and to learn
Give us time and space needed to stand back, reflect, unfreeze, and gain new perspectives
Deliberate questions to clarify, to open up new avenues, to unpack, to offer ideas and insights, to learn
Before solutions, allow us to diverge from the current thought and look at a different more systemic perspective rather than converge too quickly
Seeds of solutions reside in questions

15. Action Learning uses reflection and the cycle of learning
Stage 1: Having an experience
L = P + Q + R
Stage 4:
Applying the learning Planning the next steps
Stage 2:
Reflecting on and analysing the experience
Stage 3 : Concluding from the experience
(Kolb 1984)

16. Coaching Live!

17. Key principles to remember
No learning without action, no sober and deliberate action without learning
We learn best when we directly involved in our own learning about a current life situation
When we choose a learning experience, we usually learn more readily
Applying that learning to our ambitions and goals, makes it more personally meaningful and of greater benefit to our vision

18. Taking the Learning Home
Based on your leadership ambitions, what skills and experience do you need?
What roles, relationships, activities and responsibilities, even challenges are you willing to take on in the near future? (Remember: you do not always need to succeed but you need to be willing to learn)
Seek support from people who can provide feedback, give moral support, act as a sounding board. Use a coach or mentor.
Monitor progress and celebrate success.

19. Asante Sana - ምንም አይደል– Merci –
Thank you!
Asante Sana -  ምንም አይደል– Merci –
شكرا – Murakôze
@xponentially