Scenario: Uninvited Guest
As an Action Learning Coach how would you handle the following situation:
An animal – bird, monkey, or other – enters the room through an open window.
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Sumaia Thomas
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As soon as we had noticed the uninvited guest, I would ask the group how they want to handle the situation – “I’ve noticed we have an uninvited and expected guest, mr. bird. How would you like to handle this situation to keep all focused on this session? or How about take a 5’break in order to ask for someone’s help to drive back mr.bird to outside the room, and keep us all focused on this session? – I would wait for everybody to answer and we moved accordingly.
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Wytze Tesselaar
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I would immediately pause the session because it wil distract right away. Adres the problem and take a five minute coffee break. Catch the animal, make a selfie with the group, give it a hug, have a good laugh about it, give the animal back to mother nature and carry on. The moment you carry on you first have to summarise the session shortly before the ‘incident’ happened.
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Archirawish Pakchotipong
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As an AL Coach , I will intervene and noticed about the uninvited guest
If an uninvited guest is dangerous I will stop that session and try to take care my self and team members to safety first.
If uninvited guest is undangerous, I will ask the question
“In this situation , What is impact ours about working as a team?”
“As a team , How would we decide to do for the good Learning results for the team?”
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Weranuch Wongwatanakul
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The session is being interrupted and it technically pause.
Once invited guest leaves the group, as an AL coach, I should observe if there are any of team members get panic or freak out of that animal. If not, I would invite team members to get back to the session. Then, asking them “What happened in the past 10 minutes? “How it matter to our session?” Then, I should let them respond and asking further “How will we continue our process?”
However, if there is a team member who seem not be able to continue with the session (e.g. too panic, get allergic, get bitten). I might discuss briefly with the client’s representative/host that it should be better for that team member and the group for letting him/her taking a break and leave the session. Then, when getting back to the session with similar statement like i mentioned above.
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Ricardo Grzybowski
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I would tell the group that I have observed that the fact has just occurred and would ask, how the situation should be handled as a group? I’d follow the group’s recommendation. Once its done, I restart the session.
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Risky Harisa Haslan
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I would first ask the group if they noticed that something just happened (“What has happened in the pat 5 minutes?”). If the group noticed the bird/other animal coming in, I would ask how they think it would impact the group. If they did not, I would rephrase my question to “I’ve noticed that an animal just entered the room, what are you thoughts on that?” and then asking them how they think it would impact the group if necessary. I would then ask them what they wanted to do with the situation. Once the group decided to do, I would proceed with the session.
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Ponnarat Pichaichanlert
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I would intervene by asking the group.
“There is bird enter to this room, How do you feel about this case?…(Fear, Not concentrate in session)”
“What is the impact if we are not able to concentrate in session?”
“How would the group like to deal with that?”
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