As an action learning coach, how would you handle the following situation:
A participant offers to collect information/agreements on a white board. All members are in agreement with this. After a short while the scribe is no longer being included in the conversation.
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As an action learning 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 the problem presenter presents their solution to the problem about to be discussed in the Action Learning session.
As an action learning coach, how would you handle the following situation:
The team took a break less than 15 minutes ago, since returning the energy in the group is very low.
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.
As an action learning coach, how would you handle the following situation:
A participant gets up from the group to fill a cup of coffee continuing to stay engaged with the problem solving.
As an action learning coach, how would you handle the following situation:
The participants are asking extraordinarily curious questions.
As an action learning coach, how would you handle the following situation:
Several team members are sitting with their arms folded across their chest.
As an action learning coach, how would you handle the following situation:
You are working with a team of really important people. Their phones are ringing continually. Members are moving in and out of the sessions to respond to emergency situations that cannot wait until after the meeting. Your inclination is to try to get them to put the devices away. They refuse and come up with a team norm for how they will handle decision making with whoever is in the room.
As an action learning coach, how would you handle the following situation:
A participant responds to a question with “What inspired that question?”
As an action learning coach, how would you handle the following situation:
A team member asks a powerful open question of all the team members. Before giving anyone a chance to answer they say – “Because I think
..” filling in their own response to the question.
As an action learning coach, how would you handle the following situation:
The team feels they are at a point that it would be useful to brainstorm.
As an action learning coach, how would you handle the following situation:
Someone starts capturing the important notes on the white board. They are doing the filtering of what is important without checking with the rest of the team. In other words they are only capturing what sounds important to them.
As an action learning coach, how would you handle the following situation:
The team members address various perspectives of the problem. Clearly seeing multiple views as to the true nature of the problem. They ask questions that cause them to bounce from one perspective to another to another to another and back to the first. They continually repeat the cycle without settling on which aspect of the challenge to address.
As an action learning coach, how would you handle the following situation:
A participant shows up for a session and has not completed the promised action.
As an action learning coach, how would you handle the following situation:
A team member does a process check.