{
  "schema": "vedokrok.public-item.v1",
  "release_id": "MHC-RPUB-20260920-75ad787a",
  "url": "/knowledge/ask-the-learner-to-generate-options-before-advising",
  "id": "MHC-D-RESEARCH-9113",
  "version": "0.1.0",
  "title": "Ask the learner to generate options before advising",
  "summary": "Development requires the learner to do cognitive work.",
  "kind": "protocol",
  "body": "Ask for the person's diagnosis, options and preferred next step before adding advice. Then contribute missing evidence or constraints rather than replacing their reasoning.",
  "limits": [
    "Team-learning practices consume time. Use them where there is a real performance or coordination question, and do not substitute process rituals for domain expertise."
  ],
  "topics": [
    "union-lead-without-authority-stakeholder-systems"
  ],
  "intents": [],
  "source_ids": [
    "RS-AEFDE0C1850C0E3B"
  ],
  "evidence": [
    {
      "claim": "A meta-analysis of workplace coaching studies reported positive overall effects on learning and performance-related organizational outcomes.",
      "source_id": "RS-AEFDE0C1850C0E3B",
      "role": "supports",
      "note": "The included coaching was provided by internal or external coaches, not manager-subordinate or peer coaches; everyday leadership adaptations are editorial extrapolations.",
      "locator": "Abstract"
    }
  ],
  "use_when": [
    "When coaching conversations turn into the leader solving the problem while the other person listens."
  ],
  "avoid_when": [
    "Team-learning practices consume time. Use them where there is a real performance or coordination question, and do not substitute process rituals for domain expertise."
  ],
  "example": "A junior consultant proposes two ways to reconcile duplicates before the lead explains the safer third option.",
  "check": "The learner's reasoning is observable and can improve, rather than only the final answer changing.",
  "steps": [
    "Ask what outcome they want.",
    "Ask how they diagnose the problem.",
    "Ask for at least two options.",
    "Add advice after their reasoning is visible."
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "id": "RS-AEFDE0C1850C0E3B",
      "title": "The Effectiveness of Workplace Coaching: A Meta-Analysis of Learning and Performance Outcomes from Coaching",
      "url": "https://doi.org/10.1111/joop.12119"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "from": "MHC-D-RESEARCH-9113",
      "to": "MHC-D-RESEARCH-9114",
      "type": "useful_with",
      "url": "/knowledge/coach-one-observable-behavior-at-a-time"
    }
  ],
  "collections": [
    {
      "id": "RC-47952011564F7728",
      "title": "Lead without formal authority: stakeholder decisions, delegation, voice, and team learning",
      "url": "/collections/lead-without-formal-authority-stakeholder-decisions-delegation-voice-and-team-learning"
    }
  ]
}