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“If you think you understand a problem, make sure you are not deceiving yourself”

Albert Einstein to Reg Revans, creator of Action Learning

Welcome

"Value Improvement Projects supports organisations and their leaders in tackling strategic challenges by enabling them to work positively with ignorance through collaborative questioning.

This is different to the traditional training and consultancy approach of teaching pre-existing knowledge and providing off-the-shelf case studies.

The Action Learning Question (ALQ) method has been applied and adapted across commercial, government and social organisations over the past 25 years.

This is based on research into how business driven problem solving works and has been recognised by business schools and university partnerships internationally.

Addressing human transition alongside technical challenges creates high value return on investment.

Working with the KNOWCANWILLDO network we are able to draw on a qualified team of mentors, coaches and educators who are accredited as Action Learning Facilitators. This means whether you are looking to pilot an innovative approach to leadership development or are ready to scale-up and transform the business, we can mobilise at pace and with agility.

Value Improvement Projects Ltd supports armed forces veterans in career transition and is a proud signatory to the Armed Forces Covenant. We are recognised by the MOD through registration as a preferred training provider with the Career Transition Partnership and ELCAS accreditation of the Action Learning Facilitator Programme.

We are a partner with the socially driven York St John University London."

Dr Richard Hale
Founder
Value Improvement Projects Ltd

Turning Challenge into Action

Facing into the difficult questions of business
Accelerating from decisions to action
Collaborative leadership and learning
Giving voice to talent
Coaching for transition
Seeing the Unseen

Supporting Transformation of...

National resilience through defence, engineering, cyber and crisis management
Social care in the community and healthcare
Higher education for business
Early years education
Enabling armed services and blue-light leavers through career transition

Action Learning Facilitator Accreditation

Transform tomorrow together with mission driven leadership and skilled facilitation.

Mobilise others to take action and support team and organisational impact and learning.

Be a catalyst for change in project groups and your organisation.

Strategic Orbits Exercise^®

Reveal deeper insights into the human system at work in your team.

Based on wargaming, crisis response and family systems theory.

Prepare for the unknown and assess your team Value Quotient.

Impact & Influence

Achieve results through others and influence beyond position power.

Apply the Hale Circle of Influence through skills and mental preparation.

Skills development through digital and personal development.

Leadership in Action

Leaders collaborate to tackle business challenges.

Learning through action in the ‘here and now’.

Demonstrating tangible return on investment.

They say...

“The ALFA programme will change me. It’s more than just a certification at the end of it. I believe it will elevate me to the next level of the leader that I want to be and how I want to show up. The work I’m doing on myself alongside the course is why I know that change will happen.”

“The ALFA programme has really scaffolded my transition from the military to becoming a senior consultant and business owner. The side of me that I hadn’t quite realised wasn’t fully being explored was myself.”

“ALFA enables people to take on consulting roles working with groups to affect human change in business or government contexts.”

“In action learning we take a problem where we don’t know the answer or the method to solve it, and we turn it into a question. We use the question method to inform our research, action, and what we are going to try to do differently.”

“ALFA gives you a peer group with a degree of trust, the same level of trust you’d find in a military squad. Often military people don’t realise or don’t talk about the real strengths they’ve got, or how transferable they are.”

“Curiosity is significant. Some of the action learning we’ve been doing has left me incredibly curious, and that has stayed with me. It’s made me read, rethink, and observe interactions in my workplace differently.”

“ALFA is giving me tools to enable our team to operate under pressure. We know it will never be on the perfect day. My Action Learning Question is: how do we create and curate a space for the team to operate under high pressure with a conscious mindset?”

“The ALFA programme has helped me explore who I am in a practice-based way. My cohort, my squad, were the first people outside the military I could really trust. It felt like a space where I could, for once, take the armour off.”

“The ALFA programme equips people with the credentials and the badge to demonstrate they are facilitators of change.”

“The theory follows the action. It follows real work that people are doing. Early on, you work out a question to focus on, and that becomes the core of your learning journey.”

“The process of actually asking questions rather than trying to convey answers was really powerful.”

“This is a qualification for people who want to get out there and take action. The theory comes after the doing.”