As an action learning coach, how would you handle the following situation:
The teams has been working on fleshing out a breakthrough solution to a problem that has been haunting the organization for years. A long term employee stops by just long enough to tell them it won’t work.
As an action learning coach, how would you handle the following situation:
The team starts brainstorming some great solutions; stopping short of actually developing a fully and clearly implementable plan.
The Thermo Fisher Scientific team brought together 130 team members from various functions in two locations- Taiwan and Singapore to discover the power of Action Learning. Participants experienced the importance and benefits of Psychological Safety when working together. It was a rare occasion where our participants could share freely about their challenges at work. With the guidance of the Action Learning coaches, participants started learning the skills of active listening and understanding the power of questioning.
“The Action Learning coaches created a safe environment for us to share about challenges and to learn. That leads to open and courageous communication among team members, and to both challenge and help others think through the issues they are facing.”
David Loke
Regional Sales Training & Development Manager
Thermo Fisher Scientific
As an action learning coach, how would you handle the following situation:
The team seems to be at consensus but continues to question the nature of the real problem.
As an action learning coach, how would you handle the following situation:
A participant is convinced of the true nature of the problem and repeats the same questions over and over in an effort to persuade the others, even after others have made it clear that they don’t believe that is where the real problem is, that what this particular participant is advocating is just another symptom.
China Foreign Economy and Trade Trust Co., Ltd. built its second youth-talent development program around Action Learning with a hybrid training model to improve abilities in problem-solving, innovation and leadership. In the intensive learning, participants integrate their learning results with actual work through deliberate practices and tools of “leadership in action”.
Their projects help solve important issues supporting the company’s strategy while strengthening participants’ leadership and teamwork.The program has become a benchmark of talent development in the company and the WIAL Action Learning skills are deployed to the talent development at all levels of the company.
“Action learning develops a systematic and deductive way of thinking and supplements participants’ intrinsic mindset and subjective experience. The program has helped the company build up young people who identify with the company culture, dare to innovate and who bring an enterprising spirit, efficient working ability and professional accomplishment.”
Mr. Teng Li
Training Manager
China Foreign Economy and Trade Trust Co., Ltd.
As an action learning coach, how would you handle the following situation:
The team is starting to ask the same questions over and over again.
As an action learning coach, how would you handle the following situation:
During the learning checkin the team has identified all of the learning opportunities you had noted both in terms of what went well and what could be better.
As an action learning coach, how would you handle the following situation:
After the actions are defined the problem presenter asks for help implementing them.
As an action learning coach, how would you handle the following situation:
A participant is asked to take an action and declines because they know they do not have time to complete it.
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:
At the end of the session, several participants have practiced many of the leadership skills that were written up.
As an action learning coach, how would you handle the following situation:
At the end of the session, a participant hasn’t practiced their leadership skill.
As an action learning coach, how would you handle the following situation:
A participant does something in direct contradiction to their chosen skill.