BREAKING HABITS: STRENGTHENING SCHOOL-BASED MANAGEMENT THROUGH ACTION LEARNING
Old habits are hard to break. Close to two decades after the Philippine Department of Education implemented the School-Based Management (SBM) policy, schools were still struggling to unlearn decades worth of habits and ways of working that resulted from a centralized system. Read More
Scenario: Authority Rules?
As an Action Learning coach, how would you manage a situation whereby during the session, the Problem Presenter, the one with the highest authority within the team continuously prompts other team members to ask questions because he is impatient?
Scenario: Laughter
As an Action Learning coach, how would you manage a situation whereby team members are having lots of fun and laughter, cracking jokes with each other and disrupting the session that results in no outcome?
Scenario: Bad Experiences
As an Action Learning coach, how would manage a session whereby team members have had bad experiences with each other previously, hence placing the psychological safety of the session in jeopardy? Team members were selected by the sponsor.
Scenario: Translation
As an Action Learning coach, how would you manage a session whereby team members are from diversed backgrounds and they are fluent in their own languages? As the coach, you have the ability to provide translation, both for the questions put forth and statements of respond, but the concern is that the essence of the […]
Scenario: Distrust
As an action learning coach, how would you manage the following situation: Team members are introduced to each other before the session starts. The Problem Presenter clearly expresses his distrust towards other team members, stating that they are not experts in the field related to his problem.
Scenario: Intervention timing
Intervention timing
Scenario: Problem or Puzzle
Problem or Puzzle
Scenario: Please explain
Please explain
HOW ACTION LEARNING CAN BE USED IN TEAM COACHING
For the last 2 years I’ve been studying for my Masters in Coaching and Mentoring with Oxford Brookes, which I completed and successful passed in September 2021. My research looked at the use of Action Learning within Team Coaching. I wanted to share with you some of the findings from my research. In this article […]