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As an action learning coach, how would you handle the following situation: The problem presenter locks eyes with you when presenting the problem and appears to be just talking to you.
As an action learning coach, how would you handle the following situation: The team is shifting in their understanding of the true nature of the problem. For instance the original problem is presented as “How should we restructure the organization for efficiency?” and they are shifting to “The communication between team members has eroded to the point that we work against each other instead of helping each other.”
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 handle the following situation: The team is having trouble coming to consensus. You’ve asked what would help them come to consensus – they say ask more questions and immediately start asking questions before you have closed out the learning.
As an action learning coach, how would you handle the following situation: The team is working on a porch with windows around three sides. As the session starts two participants stand up at the same time. One walks to one side of the room and closes a window, the other walks to the other and opens a window.
As an action learning coach, how would you handle the following situation: A single team member is asking all the questions of the problem presenter, the remainder sitting back observing.
As an action learning coach, how would you handle the following situation: A participant offers to collect information/agreements on a white board. All members are in agreement with this. After a short while the scribe is no longer being included in the conversation.
As an action learning coach, how would you handle the following situation: The problem presenter schedules a half hour meeting immediately before the Action Learning session. During this meeting the problem presenter presents their solution to the problem about to be discussed in the Action Learning session.
As an action learning coach, how would you handle the following situation: The team took a break less than 15 minutes ago, since returning the energy in the group is very low.
As an action learning coach, how would you handle the following situation: When checking in with the team they have a particularly deep learning around something they identified. You still have one more thing on your list of potential learnings.
As an action learning coach, how would you handle the following situation: A participant gets up from the group to fill a cup of coffee continuing to stay engaged with the problem solving.