Scenario: Confirming Thought
As an Action Learning Coach how would you handle the following situation: A participant makes a statement followed by – “do you agree?”
Scenario: Rapid Fire
As an Action Learning Coach how would you handle the following situation: Someone asks a series of questions without waiting for an answer.
Scenario: Non-leaders
As an Action Learning Coach how would you handle the following situation: Some members don’t see the need to practice a leadership skill since they are not leaders.
A set with 9 or more members
Has anyone encountered a situation with more than 8 people (say 10), all active in an AL set… If yes, it would be interesting to know what happened, any lessons learned…
Question asked in response to a question
I have encountered this in a session yesterday and I wonder if any one has some creative ideas.. As an Action Learning Coach how would you handle the following situation: During the session PP./TM posed a question to the group and the first response was a question back to her. The question to her was partially […]
Clowning Around
As an Action Learning Coach how would you handle the following situation: One team member begins to make fun of one point the group is discussing. Initially, this is creative and brings happiness to the group. Then this joking is repeated sequentially among team members … a competition emerges to come up with the most […]
Outlining the problem in a SPAL
When working with a client on a business problem through action learning, I ask the sponsor or problem owner to answer a number of questions, in writing, before the first session starts. I have created a one page form with the following questions: Describe the problem … describing context, history and some basic data, key […]
Everybody takes the same action …
During the Single Problem Action Learning session, the coach reminds all team members a few times that they have to think about the actions they will commit to at the end of the session, in preparation for the follow up session. When the coach asks for the actions at the end of the session, several […]
Deliberate Distraction
What do you do as a coach when a team member asks a question which is obviously in no way related to the problem presented? I.e. the team is working on an organisational culture problem and the next question is “Does anyone in the group have a preference for where we have lunch?”
Sponsor answers questions … and doesn’t stop talking !
The team in a single problem action learning set asks questions to the sponsor (the boss), and in addition to just answering the question, the sponsor talks about the context, history, options, ideas for solutions … and this even when the question asked was a closed one … Even if the team members become aware […]