Scenario: Rabbit Hole
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Giuseppe Casella
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As a coach I would probably interrupt the discussion and to a group check, asking the team if they think we are on track, eventually asking to describe in one word the themes emerging from the problem statement and seeking confirmation from the problem owner if we are moving in the right direction.
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Jean Eugene Injerona
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I would raise a hand and I would intervene to redirect discussions and reflections back to the central Action Learning problem.
First, I will put forward the reasons for my intervention. In compliance with the second ground rule which gives me the authority to intervene whenever there is opportunity for learning. And taking the opportunity of a concrete illustration of an off-topic team discussion as an example of a practice to avoid if you want to have productive team collaboration sessions.
And I will ask questions. I will shed light on the fact that as that they are deviating from the central problem to be tackled by asking questions such as “Does everyone remember my role as a Action Learning coach as it was explained at the very beginning of our Action Learning session?” – “What are we discussing now? Do someone can explain how it relates with our problem?” “Do we this that discussing can help us to address the real problem?”
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Andrea Chow
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As a coach, we can intervene by asking “What is happening”, I noticed that we have brought up unrelated issues, what is happening? after receiving replies from the team, check with the “what is the impact of bringing up unrelated issues?” and “How will happen if we continue to do so?” and before we continue on the action learning process, check in what “What can we do to improve?” and “How do we prevent this from happening again?”
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Janice Chan
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It would be time that I will intervene as coach, by asking, “Team, what is happenening here? Do we have an agreement to the problem presented?”, “Can we take a 5 minutes to reflect on the problem we have agreed as a team?”.
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Lim Patrick
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Although I will allow some levels of off-track questioning for siphoning out different perspectives and perhaps ‘unspoken barriers’ of a challenge at hand. However, once if the off-track questionings go into irrelevant grounds too frequently, will intervene to either seek affirmation from the team on their perception of whether they are “on or off” track on the key issue.
Or, the issues highlighted behind a stated problem could be the real team challenge. This could also be an indication of Bruce Tuckman’s model of “Storming stage” within the team. Except that it is fast-tracked as off-track questionings.
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Liang CHen
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I will intervene:
I’ve observed a situation where people are focusing on a less relevant issue now, have you noticed that?
How is this going to affect our process today?
And what do we do next?
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