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Scenario: Coaches Advice

As an Action Learning Team Coach how would you handle the following situation: A team member asks if you have any suggestions on how to solve the problem.

Scenario: Obvious Question

As an Action Learning Team Coach how would you handle the following situation: Listening to the team you realize an obvious question they are missing. If they would just ask “blah blah blah” the true nature of the problem would become clear to everyone.

Scenario (Questions / Answers)

As an Action Learning Team Coach how would you handle the following situation: During an intervention you ask “How are we doing taping all the knowledge in the room?” A participant says “We are asking questions and (s)he is answering them – isn’t that the rule?”

Can a coach make too many interventions?

hi all I am wondering how you might determine if there is a point in a group, particularly a 1st time group, where the number, frequency or duration of interventions for learning opportunites become counter-productive to the groups performance? That is, the coach must decide to let some learning opportunities slide rather than pick them […]

Scenario: Rambling (Wo)Man

As an Action Learning Team Coach how would you handle the following situation: A participant asks the problem presenter a question that starts “Do you ….” The response is “no blah blah blah blah blah blah blah ….”

Scenario: Oops

As an Action Learning Team Coach how would you handle the following situation:  At the start of the session you ask everyone “if they are ok with the rules” instead of “if they understand the rules” – someone says “no”.

Scenario: Unavailable Member

As an Action Learning Team Coach how would you handle the following situation: Just prior to the beginning of the meeting, the group is informed that a member has been asked by her boss to handle an emergency, and will not be able to join the group for the first 2 hours of the session.

Scenario: Multiple Variables

As an Action Learning Team Coach how would you handle the following situation: The team is attempting to analyze the problem situation in a search to identify the one key variable that they can influence or change to create movement in the direction of their established goal or end result. They are debating the relevance […]

Scenario: Multiple Levels

As an Action Learning Team Coach how would you handle the following situation: Every time the team seems close to getting to consensus a question is asked that takes them someplace else. You realize there are two levels that are being looked at – some participants are focused at a single group level (How do […]