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:

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:

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 respond to the following situation:

A group member provides quite a bit of context before asking the actual question. As a coach you have intervened and asked “I might have missed it, but what was the question you are responding to?” the person then responds with “I’m getting to the question shortly but I needed to provide some context first”….

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?”

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:

The group was trying hard to identify a leader to “tell” the group what is the problem statement so that they can start finding solutions. They were hoping that the problem presenter or the AL coach would play the ‘leader’ role. The group looks clueless and feeling insecure.