Insights
DeakinPrime employs a wealth of learning and development professionals to provide experienced and expert advice and solutions for a wide range of human capital performance and business strategy challenges.
DeakinPrime is also associated with thought leaders in the learning and development industry and best practice theories that ensure their solutions are as current and relevant as possible.
DeakinPrime’s experience and expertise ensures these individuals provide valuable insight into various learning and development topics and issues. Examples of these can be found here.
Action Learning
Action learning is a learner-centred, team-based and action-oriented experiential learning process in which a small group of people (known as an ‘action learning set’) meet regularly to explore an opportunity or problem and to learn from their reflections on the actions they are taking to solve the problem.
Coaching Skills
Coaching was born from a number of fields of research and industries including humanistic psychology, counselling, adult education, organisational development and corporate training, consulting, mentoring, sports coaching and the rise of the human potential movement of the 1960’s. The ‘toolkit’ used by today’s coaches is made up of information, research, models and strategies that have been developed from these and various other professional services for over seventy years.
Communities of Practice
The general notions that characterise Communities of Practice are as follows: bonding by exposure to common problems; common practices and language; common sense of purpose; groups that learn; and members evolve more creative practice.
Reflective Practice
A reflective practice is one that provides the learner with a process, framework or support tools for learning enhancement through reflection. This reflection may be individual and private (such as when journaling), verbal and undertaken with one other person (such as in a ‘buddy’ role) or in a group (as in an action learning set). A reflective practice enables a new level of learning.
