Scenario library
Practice on a ready-made situation
Not ready to bring your own conversation? Each scenario below is a realistic feedback situation with the intake already filled in — pick one and jump straight to the diagnostic questions, strategy, and role-play.
- Direct reportMedium
The 9:15 Regular
A strong performer who has quietly become chronically late to the daily stand-up.
Marcus has arrived 10 to 15 minutes late to the team's 9:00 stand-up three or four days a week for the past two months. The rest of the team has started holding the real conversati…
- Direct reportMedium
The Last-Minute Flag
Repeated sprint deadlines missed, each one surfaced only at the eleventh hour.
Priya has missed three sprint deadlines in the last six weeks. Each time she flagged the slip the afternoon it was due rather than when she first knew she was behind, which left th…
- Direct reportEasy
The Slipping Star
A great first year, then a sudden month of sloppy, rework-heavy deliverables.
Daniel had an excellent first year, but over the past month two of his deliverables needed significant rework before they could go out, and last week a client pointed out several t…
- PeerMedium
The Eye-Roller
A peer whose interruptions and 'we already tried that' are silencing the room.
In our cross-functional planning meetings, Rachel regularly interrupts people mid-sentence, answers new ideas with 'we already tried that' before they're finished, and visibly sigh…
- PeerHard
The 'I Pulled Together'
A peer who presented your shared analysis to leadership as his own work — twice.
In Monday's leadership review, Tom walked through the market analysis we built together over three weeks and framed it as 'an analysis I pulled together,' never mentioning me or my…
- Direct reportMedium
The Fading Square
A remote report gone quiet: camera off, silent in meetings, minimal output.
Over the past six weeks Alex, who is fully remote, has gone from an active contributor to nearly invisible: camera always off, silent in team meetings unless directly asked, Slack…
- Senior leaderHard
Managing Up: The Line-by-Line Review
Giving upward feedback to a senior leader whose micromanagement is slowing everything down.
My director, Susan, reviews every deliverable my team produces line by line, rewrites emails before they go to stakeholders, and requires her sign-off before we contact other depar…
- Direct reportHard
The Defensive Call
A report who got defensive with an angry client — and the client went over your head.
When our client escalated a data error last Thursday, Jordan got visibly defensive on the call — interrupted the client, said the issue 'wasn't really our fault,' and pointed at th…
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