Research Paper on:
Learning and Corporate Teams

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dictates how a particular company will operate; instead, the corporate approach has come to embrace a more enlightened perspective with regard to addressing the ever-changing needs of commercial interchange, with  team learning representing one of the most widespread formulas used in todays working environment. Team learning, which "focuses on providing solutions to business problems by developing an open approach to  questioning" (McCann, 2002), removes the one-sidedness so prevalent with conventional business thinking and instills a sense of empowerment throughout the entire workforce. It can readily be argued that the  workplace is not the same as it was just ten years ago, and it will not be the same ten years from now. In the ongoing quest to make  the workplace a more effective environment, it has also become an ever-changing one in relation to its modifying climate. One of the most identifiable changes as determined by team  learning has been in the overt modification of the primary focal point, which as been responsible for different values, assumptions and expectations. "The business world is changing at such  a pace that the solutions to problems are not found in books or journals, nor in the mind of the expert. They are found by team members themselves, who,  through the process of Team Learning, identify the key questions to be addressed. They then seek to use their resources to find the answers, often through trial and error"  (McCann, 2002). The four primary components of team learning include questioning, valuing diversity, communicating and learning review. In the past, questioning  anything at all - especially by someone who did not hold the authority to do so - was considered out of step and inflammatory in nature. Today, however, if