Sally has been facilitating Action Learning Sets for over 15 years and using the Action Learning approach within Leadership Programmes.

She is often called upon to train others as Action Learning Facilitators and many years ago wrote a guide to setting up Learning Sets which is still in demand today.

Action Learning Sets can be established to focus on particular issues or to provide a way for individuals with a common purpose or need come together to focus on their own development.

The key features of Action Learning Sets are:

• A focus of learning at three levels – learning about the problem being tackled, learning about oneself, and learning about the process of learning itself (learning to learn)
• A group who commit to stay together for a minimum length of time, e.g. 12 months
• Use of the core action learning process namely individuals bringing issues to their peers for challenge and support and then feeding back on the action taken as a result
• A skilled facilitator who helps create a psychologically safe space, guides the group through the action learning process and role models effective behaviour.