Scenario: Clowning Around
As an action learning coach, how would you handle the following situation: The group looses concentration and focus on the problem they are suppose to be working on …. They are primarily focused on clowning with each other!
Scenario: Learning Organization
As an action learning coach, how would you handle the following situation: You’ve been working with several teams in the same organization for months. As you are walking to one of your sessions you hear an employee say – Hey we could really use a pizza man for this discussion.
Scenario: Door
As an action learning coach, how would you handle the following situation: At the start of the session a participant gets up and closes a door.
Scenario: Sit still
As an action learning coach, how would you handle the following situation: The teams members are locked to the table. They are adhering to the two grounds rules but not making use of any other resources.
Scenario: Promises
As an action learning coach, how would you handle the following situation: At the start of a check in you promise the team member that had just started to ask a question that you will return to them for the first question when you are done.
Scenario: Explaining
As an action learning coach, how would you handle the following situation: A participant explains what they believe the problem is rather than just reading what they have written.
Scenario: Multiple Problems
As an action learning coach, how would you handle the following situation: The team has come to the realization that the problem presented has many aspects to it and they only have a limited amount of time to work on it.
Scenario: All together
As an action learning coach, how would you handle the following situation: A participant asks everyone a question. Gets an answer from everyone and one of the participants ask the person who initially asked the question – “what are your thoughts?”
Scenario: Stump stump
As an action learning coach, how would you handle the following situation: A team member leaves the room angrily.
Scenario: Run for it
As an action learning coach, how would you handle the following situation: The team decides they need something from another building, they all get into one car and continuing the session as they go to the other building for the information.