Scenario: Group Question

As an Action Learning Coach how would you handle the following situation: One of the participants asks a question of the entire team, after a single answer the team moves on to the next question.

Scenario: Passing Notes

As an Action Learning Coach how would you handle the following situation: Someone walks in the room where the team is working and passes a note to one of the participants.

Scenario: Presenter Questions

As an Action Learning Coach how would you handle the following situation: All of the questions are directed at the problem presenter. After asking the standard 3 questions no one has mentioned this.

Scenario: Firing Line

As an Action Learning Coach how would you handle the following situation: All of the questions are directed at the problem presenter. During the check-in the problem presenter says – “I feel like I am on a firing line.”

Scenario: Closed Question

As an Action Learning Coach how would you handle the following situation: During the last check-in the team agreed that, they need to use more open question, yet they continue to ask mostly close questioned. Even with the closed questions, the responses are open. You’ve tried asking “what question are you answering?” they say that […]

Scenario: Over the top

As an Action Learning Coach how would you handle the following situation: The problem presenter is the owner of the business you are coaching a team for. Every question he is asked he gives much more information than was asked for. You’ve asked him what question he is answering several times and he says ‘that […]

Scenario: Side Conversation

As an Action Learning Coach how would you handle the following situation: As you are opening the session and reinforcing the ground rules, two participants start chatting (they’ve been in many session and already know the rules).

Scenario: Extended Break

As an Action Learning Coach how would you handle the following situation: The team agreed to a 15 minute break, it’s 30 minutes before you get everyone back in the room and ready to restart.

Scenario: Solution Statements

As an Action Learning Coach how would you handle the following situation: When members of the team read their problem statement, what they read is clearly a solution. For instance – “Joe needs to hire me to do a team building activity with his team.”

Scenario: Silo-ed Participants

As an Action Learning Coach how would you handle the following situation: Each member of the team is focused on their own line of questioning. This becomes particularly clear when participants start asking questions that have been asked by multiple participants.