The recent dialogues among Wisconsin professionals about organizational
learning came about as part of the research of
Rebecca
Cors a graduate student at the University of Wisconsin,
Madison.
Since May 2002, Rebecca and her advisor,
Pat
Eagan, have been working with the
Wisconsin
Department of Natural Resources to improve environmental
protection and management. After reading literature about
organizational learning, Rebecca was curious about what today's
practitioners are thinking and doing, and began contacting
some practitioners she knew. She began by asking whether these
folks would be interested in having some kind of dialogue.
A number of these practitioners expressed an interest in organizing
a dialogue, and suggested that the first meeting be a session
to discuss how to best design this type of gathering.
About a dozen individuals, both academic and non-academic,
met on the morning of
January 9th,
2003 to do just that. The ideas from this meeting and
some goals for the WDNR project helped Rebecca, and co-facilitators
Anne Forbes, Partners in Place, and
Sandy
Courter, design the
May 5th, 2003
Conversation About Organizational Learning.
At both meetings, the groups expressed an interest in on-going
dialogues about organizational learning, case studies, and
related topics.
