Scenario: Moving On
As an action learning coach, how would you handle the following situation: A participant asks a question of everyone and after a single answer another question is asked and the team moves on.
Scenario: TMI
As an action learning coach, how would you handle the following situation: A participant responds to the question they were asked and continues on with additional information that is no longer answering the original question.
Scenario: Yes or No
As an action learning coach, how would you handle the following situation: A member responds to a closed question with an open answer.
Scenario: Old School
As an action learning coach, how would you handle the following situation: A member makes a particularly prejudicial remark. For instance – women don’t belong in the work force.
Scenario: Nerve Hit
As an action learning coach, how would you handle the following situation: An extraordinarily deep question is asked. The responder sits quietly for a minute than begins to weep.
Scenario: Bad News
As an action learning coach, how would you handle the following situation: A member checks their voice mail during break and receives disturbing news. For instance – they are an emergency room nurse and one of their patients from the night before didn’t make it.
Scenario: Enough is Enough
As an action learning coach, how would you handle the following situation: A member bangs their hands on the table and stands angrily.
Scenario: Pulling Rank
As an action learning coach, how would you handle the following situation: A higher ranking participant of the team decides to pull rank and asks another team member – “Do you want to stay employed?”
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: Missing Participant
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 […]