Situation brief
You want a capable employee to lead a cross-functional update. They say this is extra work without support and indicate they may refuse.
Your role
Manager planning to delegate a visible new responsibility
Counterparty
Capable employee who fears overload and career risk
Objective
Explore resistance, clarify development value and agree a supported responsibility plan.
Constraints
The task matters, but workload capacity and psychological safety must be respected.
Evaluation criteria
Before you begin
Practise the judgement, wording and next-step discipline required in a realistic business conversation.
This is a practice environment. Respond naturally rather than trying to write a perfect textbook answer.
Write what you would actually say in the meeting. Specific examples, questions and commitments score better than theory.
After the roleplay, you will complete a short reflection and receive a score, transcript, feedback and action plan.