by Dawn Francis, Ed.D. Last night, I attended an ASTD Corporate SIG meeting where a panel of speakers shared their talent management and development best practices. As one of the speakers described his company’s first-level manager program, he said something that struck me as curious. He stated that participants in this program rolled their eyes [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Transformative Learning’
Transformative Learning, Part 5: The Value of Reflection
Posted in Leadership, Performance Improvement, Series, tagged Leadership, Performance Improvement, Transformative Learning on April 1, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Transformative Learning, Part 4: Organizational Change
Posted in Performance Improvement, Series, tagged Change Management, Organizational Change, Organizational Learning, Transformative Learning on December 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
by Dawn Francis, Ed.D. One of my last blog entries prompted a reader to ask how my research on transformative learning can apply to organizational transformation. She specifically wondered how it can apply to organizational transformation that occurs through the merger and acquisition of companies. What a great question! When two organizations become one through [...]
Transformative Learning, Part 3: Transformative Learning in Practice
Posted in Performance Improvement, Series, tagged Learning Theory, Performance Improvement, Transformative Learning on November 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
by Dawn Francis, Ed.D. In my previous entries, I defined transformative learning and discussed how companies can apply it. This entry will focus on examples of transformative learning in practice. First, I’ll briefly review transformative learning in case you’ve just joined this series. For learning to be transformative, it must provoke a shift in mindset. [...]
Transformative Learning: Part 2, Applying Transformative Learning
Posted in Performance Improvement, Series, tagged Learning Theory, Performance Improvement, Transformative Learning on October 22, 2009 | 2 Comments »
by Dawn Francis, Ed.D. In my earlier post, we defined what transformative learning was. Your next question is probably, “so what is it good for?” Well, let’s think about the place transformative learning has in today’s organizations. Transformative Learning and Change Management: Large-scale change initiatives require employees at all levels of the organization to reflect [...]
