Scenario: Ring Ring
As an Action Learning Coach how would you handle the following situation: Team members are coming and going as they please -either walking out to go to the toilet, or making phone calls. The rest of the members continue with the process. When you check in after each occurrence the team members indicate its ok.
A Tired Team Lead
An Action Learning Team has met for several full-day sessions over several months working on a problem that is critical and highly visible in the organization. After the most recent full-day meeting, the Team Lead (the organization assigned a Team Lead) shared with the coach that she is feeling very fatigued. Although there was excellent processing and learning at […]
Final Action Learning Session
I have just run a final action learning session (after 5 sessions) and experienced the Final Action Learning Session script to run like a series of focus group questions I found myself slipping into facilitation mode and lost the benefits of the AL questioning. I was wondering if anyone has any tips how to run […]
Scenario: Phone rings
As an Action Learning Coach how would you handle the following situation: During the session a team members phone rings and they leave the table to answer it.
Agreement on the problem
I’m new to this and still in training, but am wondering what happens when after the early stage of the first session there is no real agreement on the problem. My initial response would be to ask the group if they wish to gain agreement before continuing. If it’s the first in a series of planned […]
来自中国北京的问候
WIAL亚太区行动学习论坛即将于2011年11月20日在北京召开，感谢Skip博士ChoonSeng教练的大力支持，也感谢各位关注WIAL—Beijing成长的各位老师和朋友，希望本次论坛能够取得圆满成功。
Disgruntled Team Member
Over several sessions, one of the members has disappeared for long periods of time and/or is frequently on his blackberry. During a standard intervention (what are we doing well /what could we be doing better), he was vocal in stating that he wasn’t convinced about the AL approach. He said “We’re all professionals here and […]
Problem Presenter Refused To Answer Questions
The members were enthusiastic to help the problem presenter and asked many good questions. However, the problem presenter commented it’s confidential info. and would not answer some of the questions. Members felt they were not able to help the problem presenter much if their questions were not answered and they could not see the value […]
Scenario:Intervention Timing
As an Action Learning Team Coach how would you handle the following situation: The group has been processing particularly well, but it has been more than 30 minutes since the last intervention.
Scenario: Two Owners
As an Action Learning Team Coach how would you handle the following situation: You have two problem owners for your project. You assume that the problem owners have coordinated the presentation of the problem for the kickoff session. As soon as one starts to present the problem the other interrupts with a very different view […]