Scenario: Bathroom Break
As an action learning coach, how would you handle the following situation: The session has been going for a long stretch and participants start stepping out to use the bathroom.
Scenario: Going Through the Motions
As an action learning coach, how would you handle the following situation: The participants have been directed to participate in the Action Learning session but believe it’s a waste of time.
Scenario: Distrusting Culture
As an action learning coach, how would you handle the following situation: A year earlier there was a merger in the organization. All fun elements had been stopped – picnics, team outings and were replaced with ridged procedures. The team was tasked with determining was to bring back fun in the work place. The top […]
Scenario: Arrogant Employee
As an action learning coach, how would you handle the following situation: The teams has been working on fleshing out a breakthrough solution to a problem that has been haunting the organization for years. A long term employee stops by just long enough to tell them it won’t work.
Scenario: Laundry List
As an action learning coach, how would you handle the following situation: The team starts brainstorming some great solutions; stopping short of actually developing a fully and clearly implementable plan.
Scenario: Agreement
As an action learning coach, how would you handle the following situation: The team seems to be at consensus but continues to question the nature of the real problem.
Scenario: Leading Questions
As an action learning coach, how would you handle the following situation: A participant is convinced of the true nature of the problem and repeats the same questions over and over in an effort to persuade the others, even after others have made it clear that they don’t agree. Others are seeing what this person […]
Scenario: Repetitive Questions
As an action learning coach, how would you handle the following situation: The team is starting to ask the same questions over and over again.
Scenario: Deep Learning
As an action learning coach, how would you handle the following situation: When checking in with the team they have a particularly deep learning around something they identified. You still have one more thing on your list of potential learnings.
Scenario: Learnings
As an action learning coach, how would you handle the following situation: During the learning checkin the team has identified all of the learning opportunities you had noted both in terms of what went well and what could be better.