Scenario: Parody
From Tom Janiak As an Action Learning Coach how would you handle: In the first session, there is a lot of humor in the team. Participants joke about the the 1st ground rule and answer in a parody manner, e.g. “Dear John, in reply to your question I would venture to say…”. Whenever you ask […]
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Scenario: Overly Focused
As an Action Learning Coach how would you handle the following situation: The team is involved in generating a number of alternative perceptions, ideas, opinions, facts, etc. The team focuses on only one (e.g., debating their merits or validity) and omits other items from explicit consideration.
Scenario: Problematic Problem Presenter
As an Action Learning Coach how would you handle the following situation: The problem presenter schedules a half hour meeting immediately before the Action Learning session. During this meeting they present their solution to the problem about to be discussed in the Action Learning session.
Scenario: Takeover
As an Action Learning Coach how would you handle the following situation: In the midst of a corporate problem that deals with developing a business development strategy for an organization with declining business, the company is purchased by a large conglomerate.
Scenario: Missing Participants
As an Action Learning Coach how would you handle the following situation: The team you are coaching is working on a critical corporate problem in a leadership development program. The leadership program and work on the project is scheduled to be completed over six months. Â Two of the eight people in the group do not […]
Scenario: Self Question
As an Action Learning Coach how would you handle the following situation: A member of the team asks you – is it ok if I ask myself a question?
Scenario: Broken Trust
As an Action Learning Coach how would you handle the following situation: You are doing a leadership development program with 8 peers in a consulting firm.  One of the participants reports that her boss brought an issue with her yesterday that she had discussed in the action learning group a week ago. She is very […]
Scenario: Intervention timing
As an Action Learning 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 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 of […]