Unlock Your Action Learning Power
Join an Action Learning peer group
to develop both your creative business and your creative leadership skills
Action Learning is a powerful approach to management and personal development. It is about practice learning from the experience of doing - as opposed to ‘taught’ programmes. It involves small groups of peers, action learning ‘sets’, who meet regularly to work on, and implement solutions to real work-based challenges or opportunities.
These peers become mentors for each other for the duration of the programme. Adopting a questioning approach, they help each other to analyse issues, change perspective, develop different solutions and encourage taking action. Everyone contributes reflective listening, feedback and insights. A facilitator steers the dynamics of the group and ensures a safe learning space for each set member and the group.
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Joining an Action Learning Set helps you to
CONNECT with like-minded people from diverse backgrounds and with different experiences of working in the cultural and creative industries
SHARE your business and management development goals and concerns and experiences in a safe space
DEVELOP new perspectives and solutions to issues, often dilemmas, where there is no set path
ACTION your newly found solutions in the workplace between set meetings - bridging the planning - doing gap
BUILD A LONG-TERM SUPPORT NETWORK for professional exchange and individual and collective learning
Action Learning in the CCI
Our pilot workshops have shown that working in the cultural and creative industries sectors offers plenty of structural and personal challenges suitable for the action learning approach:
How to deal with uncertain demand of project work in fast changing industry structures?
How to find focus amidst the huge variety of creative ideas and opportunities and manage your portfolio career?
How to balance artistic, social and economic goals?
How to deal with changes such as digitisation, or the impact of the ongoing Pandemic on your business and on your motivation ?
Professional action learning facilitation ensures that each individual issue is dealt with in an adequate manner and focusses the particpants on learning from and with each other.
Action Learning Practice
Creative practitioners on Action Learning
“It feels inspiring to learn about other people’s businesses and dreams, and it is helpful to simply question the situation and look at it from a different perspective.”
“People on a similar journey having an out-of-the-box way of exploring - keeping questions open to allow the people develop their ideas for themselves.”
“Creatives often think they have to fight for themselves, when indeed we can share a lot of struggles and can give each other valuable support. ”
“It’s a comfortable, easy and curated way to connect with people - sharing similar life and business situations.”
“I like the ‘peer’ aspect of it. Everyone is a learner and a teacher.”
Programme Director
Ulrike Müller MBA is a highly experienced creative business consultant and executive coach based in Berlin. Combining more than 20 years of management and consultancy experience in London and Berlin she has developed an extensive client portfolio ranging from creative start-ups to established businesses across the sector. Ulrike holds a degree in music, an MBA from Henley Business School and is a qualified a systemic coach. She is also a certified Action Learning Facilitator and member of the Institute of Leadership and Management in London.