4. Involving the organization: Spreading the learning beyond the core team
Based on their success, the members of the core team decided to involve other teams: In the last year or so, we've brought five or six more teams into the learning labs. We waited a long time before we conducted the second one. We wanted to convince ourselves that this process would work, We also needed our top management support in r to continue funding the project. They were order reluctant initially, until we presented some of the results and benefits of the project to them. (Senge et al 1994: 559) Relating this description of the learning laboratory to our conceptual framework, s that this tool is aimed at the group level or, depending on the problem to be solved, at the organizational level. With regard o learning types we argue that learning la oratories typically support the development of capabilities for double loop leaning and denuclearizing. The learning mode is action learning, for specific experiences are considered to be the triggers of the learning process.