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Several senior managers who will be
members of a cross functional project team have indicated that they
will not be available to attend the initial training session -
whenever it is held.
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Only five of the twenty-five
participants who have registered for your training session have
arrived.
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One of the participants in your group
constantly uses obscenities in normal speech - not in an aggressive
manner, but as normal adjectives and verbs. This is
distressing to you and some other members of the group.
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To illustrate a point, you tell a
story.
One of the participants loudly proclaims that it is a myth - he has
recently seen an article which refutes it.
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Participants have been invited to
introduce themselves and explain what they hope to get out of the
course.
Your first respondent says: "I hope to get out of it as
quickly as possible," The second just says "Me too!"
and sits down.
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During the ice breaker, you discover
that the level of knowledge of your participants is much higher than
you expected and have prepared for.
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A senior executive has been invited
to open the seminar. During his speech he mentions that for
many of those present this will be the last course that they attend,
because the company is "right-sizing."
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You are using a structured exercise
which one of the participants has done elsewhere recently. It
would be preferable if the participants did not have any inside
knowledge.
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One of the participants is having
great difficulty staying awake
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The handouts and slides for your
presentation are in your lost luggage.