The Lobby
Resisting influence pressure
A senior colleague just cornered you to advocate for their favorite. The pressure is real, the politics are thick, and you can feel your objectivity slipping under the weight of influence.
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The Promotion Dilemma
→Two deserving candidates. One promotion. Navigate office politics, unconscious bias, and competing loyalties to make the right call.
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Leadership Presence
→From winning over a team of skeptical veterans to making a promotion call with your values on the line — practice the four decisions that define who you are as a leader.
What you'll learn from The Lobby
This scenario focuses on Resisting influence pressure — a critical skill inside the broader leadership domain. You'll face a decision where the instinctive response is often the wrong one. After you make your choice, you'll see exactly what happened in the other person's head and why it mattered. The scenario is part of The Promotion Dilemma, a full interactive story inside the Leadership Presence quest.
Skills you'll build in Leadership Presence
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Two resumes. Two track records. Both deserving. You need to evaluate them on merit, not on who makes you more comfortable — and the difference is harder to see than you think.
You've made your pick — but have you checked your own blind spots? The bias you can't see is the one that makes the decision for you.
The data is in, the politics are navigated, the biases are checked. Now you have to choose — and own it. This is where leadership meets values, and there's no hiding behind process.
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