Scenario: Visuals

As an action learning coach, how would you handle the following situation: One of the participants suggests that each team member draw a picture of what they see the problem is. Everyone is enthusiastic to give it a try.

Scenario: TMI

As an action learning coach, how would you handle the following situation: A participant responds to the question they were asked and continues on with additional information that is no longer answering the original question.

Scenario: Verbose

As an action learning coach, how would you handle the following situation: Several participants are answering the questions extensively, including repetition, history, minute details and ancillary information.

Scenario: Rapid Fire

As an action learning coach, how would you handle the following situation: Someone asks a series of questions without waiting for an answer.

Scenario: Tick tock

As an action learning coach, how would you handle the following situation: The team is running out of time and does not have clear next steps.

CULTURE CHANGE NOT WITHOUT ACTION LEARNING

It’s about shifting or changing the basic underlying assumptions. I recently reread Edgar Schein’s seminal book “Organizational Culture and Leadership”1. Schein identifies culture as “a pattern of shared basic assumptions learned by a group as it solved its problems of external adaptation and internal integration, which has worked well enough to be considered valid and, […]

CULTURE CHANGE? NOT WITHOUT ACTION LEARNING

It’s about shifting or changing the basic underlying assumptions   What is culture? I recently reread Edgar Schein’s seminal book “Organizational Culture and Leadership” . Schein identifies culture as “a pattern of shared basic assumptions learned by a group as it solved its problems of external adaptation and internal integration, which has worked well enough […]

Scenario: Butting in

As an action learning coach, how would you handle the following situation: Someone answers a question that was asked of someone else.

ACTION LEARNING AND PERSONAL LEADERSHIP

During an Action Learning Session, the team can get to a point that one or more persons discover how he/ she or they are part of the problem. In a fast changing environment around the organization and around the problem of the team, solutions are sometimes found in changing the perspective about the problem, instead […]

FEDEX FREIGHT ACTION LEARNING PROGRAM INVESTS IN FUTURE LEADERS

FedEx Freight Action Learning is a 90-day intensive developmental experience that brings leaders together from across FedEx Freight to produce revolutionary solutions to real organizational problems focused on generating revenue or saving/avoiding costs. Read More