News and Events
Twice a year, Action Learning, Action Research Association Ltd (ALARA) offers a free 15-week online course on action research and evaluation. The next program begins in mid-February 2020, with orientation material sent out in early February. The course is run by email.
If you decide to subscribe to it, email Bob Dick for subscription details. He will subscribe and welcome you. His email is bd@bigpond.net.au.
You may also email any questions about the AREOL program to the same address: bd@bigpond.net.au.
Action Learning, Action Research Association Ltd (ALARA) and Business Action Learning Tasmania (BALT) are pleased to announce the ALARA-BALT Australasian Action Learning, Action Research Conference 2020 to be held in Launceston, Tasmania.
Discovering the Future Together:
Action Learning and Action Research at Work
The conference will be held at the Peppers Silo Hotel in Launceston from 8 to 10 November 2020. For more information, please see the conference page.
Dear Member
The 2019 Annual General Meeting of Action Learning, Action Research Association Ltd will be conducted as both an electronic meeting and a Zoom meeting. Details and timing are stated below. Vacancies exist on the Board and Committees Group, and members are invited to nominate using the appropriate nomination form.
The electronic section of the meeting will commence at Midnight on Thursday 5 December and conclude at 11:59 PM on Wednesday 18 December 2019. The Zoom (video conference) meeting will commence at 9.00 PM on Thursday 19 December 2019. (All times listed are Australian Eastern Summer Time (Sydney or Melbourne) - please check the relevant time for your location, e.g., timeanddate.com.)
Dear Member
The Board of Action Learning, Action Research Association Ltd announce the intention to hold the 2019 Annual General Meeting. This meeting will include the final AGM of Action Learning, Action Research Association Inc. (to 31 March 2019) and the first AGM of the new entity of Action Learning, Action Research Association Ltd (to 30 June 2019).
The meeting will be held as both an electronic meeting between 5 and 18 December and a video conference (via Zoom) on Thursday 19 December 2019. Members may participate in either of these two parts of the meeting.
Vacancies exist on the Board and the Committees Group. Financial Members are invited to nominate for these vacant positions.
Full details of the meeting, vacancies and nomination forms are available on the ALARA website.
Andrew Cook
Company Secretary
Action Learning Workshop with Bob Dick in Brisbane, Australia, 12-13 September
An action learning set -- that is, an action learning project team -- can achieve multiple outcomes. It can design and implement complex projects. As it does so, its team members can improve their skills in decision making, problem solving, planning and implementation. Increasingly, these are skills of relevance to team leaders and team members in modern organisations.
Multiple action learning sets can be part of an action learning program. The sets are in effect a seed bed in which participants can practise new ways of acting. The result can be a valuable contribution to organisational culture change.