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 […]
Hello WIAL members, we are new additions to your network from South Africa post an excellent CALC Module 2 and 3 workshop with Dr Bea Carson last week. I say we as there are 9 of us and some of my colleagues may have signed up. Regards from Johannesburg, John.
Scenario: Overly Focused
As an Action Learning Team 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 Team 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: Self Question
As an Action Learning Team 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 Team 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 […]
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 […]