IMCA's Courseware before the Internet

Denise Johnson, IMCA’s Secretary from 1982 to 1988 created the name. They were called PLIAs – Putting Learning into Action. All the courseware resources IMCA gave to associates around the globe until the arrival of the Internet went there in boxes containing specially written texts, reference articles, an audio tape, sometimes a video tape … all published and printed by Rosemary ‘Timmie’ Duncan at MCB University Press, IMCA’s Official Publisher. The inventory was always ‘on average’ 2 years out of date and tied up £250,000 in stock valuation each reprint.

PLIAs were offered for public sale also to Training mangers as illustrated below where they are being exhibited at the IPM’s Harrogate Conference along with another MCB University Press prototype service, the Team management resource created by IMCA Faculty Members Drs Charles Margerison and Dick McCann. That resource, the TMR, along with Honey and Mumford’s Learning Styles approach became and remain two pillars of the IMCA global approach to action learning. Their contribution to effective Set functioning has been inestimable by their objective sensitisation of members one to another.

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