What is Action Learning? Action Learning can be defined as a process whereby groups of stakeholders use real problems to acquire learning and implement system-wide solutions. The result is that the Action Learning process can help individuals and groups become true learning organizations. In fact, Action Learning is the building block of Learning Organizations. "A major 1998 study of managerial and sales training programs offered in a large corporation demonstrated the superiority of experiential training methods for social and emotional learning... "The programs that used experiential methods produced twice as much improvement in performance, as rated by supervisors and peers, as did the other programs. Furthermore, the return on investment for the experiential programs was seven times greater." Source: L. Spencer, in L.J. Bassi and D. Russ-Eft, eds., What Works, ASTD, Alexandria, VA, 1997.