Scenario: Building Questions

As an action learning coach, how would you handle the following situation: The participants have asked some very powerful questions and are clearly building on each others questions.

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    Anisah Nurhani Abdul Shukor

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    If the team is asking good questions but not making progress towards a solution, I will firstly intervene with “Team, how are we doing with regards to asking questions?” After the team points out their observations, I will ask, “Besides building on each other’s questions, what else can we do to improve the team’s progress towards a solution?”

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    Keith Almalvez

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    As we intervene to minimize / address behaviors or situations that might pull the team away from their goals, I feel intervention is also necessary to help amplify what’s working well for the team. I’ll start of by asking “On a scale of 1-10, how would you rate the team’s performance as of the moment?”. Once they’re done sharing their answers, I will then say “I noticed some powerful questions asked earlier, what’s working out for the team?”. After listening to their answers, I will ask “what do we need to do more of to help each other ask more powerful questions?”.

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    Cynthia Wong

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    I would say, “I noticed that some powerful questions are asked and you are clearly building on each other’s questions.” If this is in the defining the problem stage, I would ask, “Perhaps we are closer now to getting an agreement on the problem. So, do we have agreement on the problem? Yes, no or quite close?”
    If this is at the solutioning stage and time is almost up, I will ask, “PP, are you ready to share what actions you are going to take after this session?”

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    YI-CHEN WU

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    I would intervene, ask the team to pause and say ” what did you observe on this question?” “what kinds of reactions of PP or other people have?” “how did this question impact PP and our team?”

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    Monika Pawłowska

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    I’d appreciate the team for asking some very powerful questions and ‎building on each others questions because it means that participants ‎are attentive and engaged in the discussion. I’d encourage to progress ‎to the core of the problem and possible action plan. Intervention could ‎be as follows: Team, how are we doing so far in scale 1 to 10? I noticed ‎that you were building on each others questions and asked some ‎powerful questions. I appreciate your attentiveness and engagement ‎into discussion. What other aspects of the problem should we ‎discuss? What questions could we ask, if we look at the problem from ‎a different perspective? How close are we to the solution? What can ‎we do more as a team to get closer to the solution?‎

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    Natalia Gennero

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    I think it´s a good scenario. I would intervene recognizing the performance and inviting the group to move on in the process. “We are asking very powerful questions and clearly building on each others questions. Congratulations for the team! Now, do you think we have enough information for advancing on the definition of the problem?”.

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    Ana Goncalves

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    As an action learning coach, how would you handle the following situation: The participants have asked some very powerful questions and are clearly building on each others questions.

    If the team is generating insightful questions but seems to be stuck without making substantial progress towards a solution, I will initiate intervention by raising the question, “Team, let’s reflect on our question-asking process. How do we think we’re doing in this aspect?” After giving the team an opportunity to voice their insights, I’ll follow up with, “In addition to enhancing each other’s questions, what other strategies might help us enhance the team’s advancement towards a solution?”

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    Panchali Kiratiruchirawong

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    I will ask, “How are we doing as a team thus far on a scale of 1 to 10 with 1 being terrible and 10 being terrific?” “What are we doing well? Can you give an example of what we have done well?” “What questions have been the most helpful?” and “What is the quality of the question?”. Lastly, “Who should ask the next question?”.

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