As an Action Learning Coach how would you handle the following situation:
The problem presenter is the owner of the business you are coaching a team for. Every question he is asked he gives much more information than was asked for. You’ve asked him what question he is answering several times and he says ‘that one’ and continues to add additional information.
As an Action Learning Coach how would you handle the following situation:
As you are opening the session and reinforcing the ground rules, two participants start chatting (they’ve been in many session and already know the rules).
As an Action Learning Coach how would you handle the following situation:
The team agreed to a 15 minute break, it’s 30 minutes before you get everyone back in the room and ready to restart.
As an Action Learning Coach how would you handle the following situation:
When members of the team read their problem statement, what they read is clearly a solution. For instance – “Joe needs to hire me to do a team building activity with his team.”
As an Action Learning Coach how would you handle the following situation:
Each member of the team is focused on their own line of questioning. This becomes particularly clear when participants start asking questions that have been asked by multiple participants.
As an Action Learning Coach how would you handle the following situation:
A member of the team you are coaching insists on answering questions that are being directed to the Problem Presenter
As an Action Learning Coach how would you handle the following situation:
You ask the problem presenter to briefly state the problem but the person continues on for an inordinate period of time not only stating the problem but also describing contextual details related to the problem.
As an Action Learning Coach how would you handle the following situation:
Someone answers their own question, without waiting for a response from anyone else.
As an Action Learning Coach how would you handle the following situation:
During an intervention you ask “How are we doing taping all the knowledge in the room?” A participant says “We are asking questions and (s)he (the problem presenter) is answering them – isn’t that the rule?”
As an Action Learning Coach how would you handle the following situation:
A participant says – “Wait. My question hasn’t been answered. The rule is that you have to answer the question”
As an Action Learning Coach how would you handle the following situation:
A member of the team does not want to participate.
As an Action Learning Coach how would you handle the following situation:
The problem presenter locks eyes with you when presenting the problem.
As an Action Learning Coach how would you handle the following situation:
The team is having trouble reaching consensus on what the real problem is.
As an Action Learning Coach how would you handle the following situation:
Someone from the team mentions it hot in here, someone else gets up to turn the air conditioner on.
As an Action Learning Coach how would you handle the following situation:
You ask the team – “What are we doing well?”, and get a response “We are asking all closed questions.”
