SWITCHING CAREERS: THE ACTION LEARNING JOURNEY OF MAGALI LOPES FROM BRAZIL
“The first time I witnessed someone facilitating an action learning session, I felt this is what I really want to do. What I saw was everything that I believe in—people talking about different difficult things, people asking questions, people seeing each other as equal,” she said. And so, from a human resources consultant, traveling around […]
Scenario: Deeply moved
Deeply moved
Scenario: Chit Chat
Chit Chat
Scenario: Us vs Them
Us vs Them
Scenario: Back tracking
Back tracking
BREAKING HABITS: STRENGTHENING SCHOOL-BASED MANAGEMENT THROUGH ACTION LEARNING
Old habits are hard to break. Close to two decades after the Philippine Department of Education implemented the School-Based Management (SBM) policy, schools were still struggling to unlearn decades worth of habits and ways of working that resulted from a centralized system. Read More
Scenario: Authority Rules?
As an Action Learning coach, how would you manage a situation whereby during the session, the Problem Presenter, the one with the highest authority within the team continuously prompts other team members to ask questions because he is impatient?
Scenario: Laughter
As an Action Learning coach, how would you manage a situation whereby team members are having lots of fun and laughter, cracking jokes with each other and disrupting the session that results in no outcome?
Scenario: Bad Experiences
As an Action Learning coach, how would manage a session whereby team members have had bad experiences with each other previously, hence placing the psychological safety of the session in jeopardy? Team members were selected by the sponsor.
Scenario: Translation
As an Action Learning coach, how would you manage a session whereby team members are from diversed backgrounds and they are fluent in their own languages? As the coach, you have the ability to provide translation, both for the questions put forth and statements of respond, but the concern is that the essence of the […]