Situation brief
A senior colleague requests a substantial piece of work within 48 hours to support an executive meeting. The requested output normally takes one week.
Your role
Functional manager owning quality and team capacity
Counterparty
Senior internal stakeholder requesting urgent delivery
Objective
Align around the real need, set a feasible boundary and agree an option that protects the outcome.
Constraints
You must maintain the relationship and cannot commit the team to unsafe quality or excessive workload.
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.