As an Action Learning Coach how would you handle the following situation:
Each member is focused on their own line of questioning.
As an Action Learning Coach how would you handle the following situation:
Several members are asking questions unrelated to the problem at hand.
As an Action Learning Coach how would you handle the following situation:
Someone from the team gets up and turns the a/c without checking with the other team members.
As an Action Learning Coach how would you handle the following situation:
The team feels they are at a point that it would be useful to brainstorm.
As an Action Learning Coach how would you handle the following situation:
During the session someone jumps up to the easels and starts capturing what is said.
As an Action Learning Coach how would you handle the following situation:
During the session you realize no one is taking notes.
As an Action Learning Coach how would you handle the following situation:
During the session a team member’s phone rings and they leave the table to answer it.
As an Action Learning Coach how would you handle the following situation:
The members were enthusiastic to help the problem presenter. They asked many good questions. However, the problem presenter commented its confidential info and would not answer some of the questions. Members felt they were not able to help the problem presenter much if their questions were not answered and they could not see the value of action learning in this instance. But the problem presenter felt the session was useful to him in addressing his problem.
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:
At the start of the session you ask everyone “if they are ok with the rules” instead of “if they understand the rules” – someone says “no”.
As an Action Learning Coach how would you handle the following situation:
You ask a member of the team how they did with their leadership skill. Another member pipes up – I’d like to tell you a technique so you can accomplish that skill. All you have to do is …
As an Action Learning Coach how would you handle the following situation:
The problem presenter asks the team to suggest some solutions. The team members start telling stories of their experience. These stories aren’t answering the question – What are some potential solutions.
As an Action Learning Coach how would you handle the following situation:
A member arrives to a three hour session one hour late. You conduct coaching inquiries and he is smoothly integrated into the team. 15 minutes later he is exchanging friendly but sarcastic comments with a team member that end with him using a hand gesture that would cause most folks to take offense to a fellow team member.
As an Action Learning Coach how would you handle the following situation:
You are coaching a leadership development program with a group of senior engineers…One of them is a Six Sigma Black Belt with years of experience in problem solving methods. During the middle of your second meeting to frame the problem, the Black Belt notes that it is taking way too long to come to agreement on the problem. Some of the Type A members of the group nod their heads in agreement.