The Team Learning Lab (TLL), developed by Fred Simon and Nick Zeniuk
(formerly of Ford Motor Co.), is a team-based learning program
designed to unite the tools and concepts of organizational learning
into, and around, real-time business issues.
The primary purpose of Team Learning Labs is to introduce "live" teams
to new tools and methods for dealing with their business and product
development issues. Program content, supplemented with video and
workbook materials, is intended to improve group performance and
results by bringing the methods and tools of Systems Thinking, Mental
Models, and Shared Vision into a business context through the teamUs
"real-world" issues.
Lab programs are experiential, characterized by self-directed group
learning -- allowing team participants to take charge of their own
learning. Labs, in groups of 6-10, are facilitated by a certified
coach. Labs run approximately 2 days.
Day 1: devoted to an understanding of the "Five Disciplines" and
Mental Model tools that guide behavior and structural inhibitors;
learning how to use Vision and Creative Tension in developing shared
goals; developing Affinity clusters of key issues to map their
interrelationships; and practicing the "new" conversation of openness
and honesty around "real-world" issues.
Day 2: participants explore the systemic interaction of these issues,
and through System Archetypes, learn how complexity inhibits
productive reasoning and action. Also how to identify points of
systemic leverage, which may prove to be fundamental solutions to
interrelated issues.
The Learning Circle is sponsoring a series of 3-day Coach
Certification/Workshops for consultants who wish to become coach
certified in this program. (We are also searching for consultants
interested in becoming vested agents for program distribution.) The
next Coach Certification /Workshop is scheduled for May 18-20th, and
will be held at The Learning Circle offices in Sudbury, MA. (just west
of Boston). For more information on The Team Learning Lab, and the
Coach Certification/Workshops, contact: J.D. Miller, c/o The Learning
Circle, (978) 371-8818, ext 202; e-mail: JDTLC@aol.com
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