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AS SOMEONE WHO COACHES INDIVIDUALS, you might be intrigued to learn about an approach that uses your existing skills to coach a group or team effectively. Organizations all over the world are using action learning as a group-coaching method to develop teams, enhance leadership skills, solve complex problems, and improve organizational efficiency. Action learning is fast becoming a popular group-coaching method as groups work on real-time challenges and apply learning and action at the same time.
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© 2013 Christine Wahl, Clarice Scriber, and Beth Bloomfield
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Whitcomb, J. (2013). Action Learning: An Approach to Team Coaching. In: Wahl, C., Scriber, C., Bloomfield, B. (eds) On Becoming a Leadership Coach. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137344137_26
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