The Setup
Setting the scene
Someone in the meeting has taken the floor and will not give it back. They are passionate, they are senior, and they are turning your thirty-minute meeting into their personal TED talk.
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The Hijacker
→One person dominates every discussion. Navigate the delicate art of managing strong personalities without creating enemies.
Part of the quest
Meeting Facilitation
→Most meetings are a waste of time. Learn to run ones that are not — facilitating productive discussions, managing dominant voices, and driving decisions. You'll navigate four escalating scenarios — from the runaway meeting to the decision meeting — practicing the decisions that matter most when the pressure is real and the stakes are personal. This isn't theory. It's practice for the moments that define how this chapter of your life unfolds.
What you'll learn from The Setup
This scenario focuses on Setting the scene — 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 Hijacker, a full interactive story inside the Meeting Facilitation quest.
Skills you'll build in Meeting Facilitation
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You interject with a redirect — acknowledging their point while steering back to the group. The power dynamic makes this feel like defusing a bomb with an audience.
They push back, subtly implying that your agenda is less important than their insight. The room watches to see who blinks first, and you realize this is about authority, not content.
You hold the structure without making it personal, and the meeting recovers. You learn that the hardest facilitation skill is not managing time — it is managing ego, including your own.
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