Scenario: Extended Break
As an Action Learning Coach how would you handle the following situation: The team agreed to a 15 minute break, it’s 30 minutes before you get everyone back in the room and ready to restart.
Scenario: Solution Statements
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”.
Scenario: Too Slow
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 […]
Scenario: Multiple Levels
As an Action Learning Coach how would you handle the following situation: Every time the team seems close to getting to consensus a question is asked that takes them someplace else. You realize there are two levels that are being looked at – some participants are focused at a single group level (How do I […]
Scenario: Overly Focused
As an Action Learning Coach how would you handle the following situation: The team is involved in generating a number of alternative perceptions, ideas, opinions, facts, etc. The team focuses on only one (e.g., debating their merits or validity) and omits other items from explicit consideration.
Scenario: Problematic Problem Presenter
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 they present their solution to the problem about to be discussed in the Action Learning session.
Scenario: Takeover
As an Action Learning Coach how would you handle the following situation: In the midst of a corporate problem that deals with developing a business development strategy for an organization with declining business, the company is purchased by a large conglomerate
Scenario: Missing Participant
As an Action Learning Coach how would you handle the following situation: The team you are coaching is working on a critical corporate problem in a leadership development program. The leadership program and work on the project is scheduled to be completed over six months. Two of the eight people in the group do not […]
Scenario: Self Question
As an Action Learning Coach how would you handle the following situation: Someone answers their own question, without waiting for a response from anyone else.
Scenario: Limiting Choice
As an Action Learning Coach how would you handle the following situation: Someone asks an open question, then follows it with a couple choices for the response.