Richard Hale Associates

Welcome

Welcome to my website.  I am committed to supporting work based learning and education and am involved in consulting and delivering training to individuals and organisations in the business and service sector internationally. My background was in corporate Human Resource Management and Development with GEC Marconi and BSkyB and subsequently I have pursued a career as a consultant, researcher, academic and trainer in the field of leadership and talent development.

I also work as an interim specialist in Learning and Development, supporting corporate organizations at both a strategic and operational level with projects to develop and retain talent and to develop professional capabilities. Much of my experience has been international working with large corporations and my recent experience has led to work in areas of exciting development in the UAE in the Middle East and I see opportunities for further growth in Africa and Australia.

I have been instrumental in the development and launch of a new action learning based professional for the outsourcing sector – as Director of Studies with the National Outsourcing Association certificate and diploma. This has led to research in the exciting field of professional development for new emerging professional fields.

I want this website to be interactive, so if you share my beliefs in work based action learning and in helping people to achieve their potential then browse round and join in. There are some giveaways in the Gifts section where I make my articles available and if you are interested in my books, workbooks and training materials see http://stores.lulu.com/rhale

I consider myself fortunate to work in areas that stimulate me.  You can see on this site though that there are certain threads running through my work and life; a passion for learning, a desire to help others learn, a need to demystify academia and a concern to inspire people and help them learn throughout their career and life.

I have been influenced by some of the original thinking of Professor Reg Revans, founding father of action learning; he was ahead of his time.  He said ‘judge the person by the questions they ask not simply the knowledge they display’.  He wasn’t the first to recognise this of course; Socrates had a similar idea some 2,300 years before.  In this post modern, high touch, socially networked, information based world I think there is a lot in this.  You will see the theme of asking insightful questions runs through my personal coaching, mentoring, training and academic work.  I also recognise that people often learn best from each other, in groups.  I believe that achievement of learning at the knowledge, skills and motivation levels is of little use unless there is action taken and a conscious effort made to learn from that action as shown in my model of action learning below.

I am pleased to say I have taken the Action Learning and Leadership Questions approach to certain universities in the UK and Australia and it is now accepted as an innovative method for developing people, that can lead to accreditation and qualifications at Postgraduate Certificate or Masters degree level.