The Setup
Setting the scene
This meeting exists to make a decision, and everyone knows it. The data is in, the options are clear, and still the room circles the same three points like a carousel nobody can stop.
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The Decision Meeting
→Discussions are easy; decisions are hard. Facilitate a meeting that ends with clear commitments, owners, and deadlines.
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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 Decision Meeting, a full interactive story inside the Meeting Facilitation quest.
Skills you'll build in Meeting Facilitation
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You name the decision explicitly — these are the options, this is the deadline, someone needs to choose. The clarity is almost jarring after thirty minutes of comfortable ambiguity.
Two camps emerge and the discussion gets heated. You realize your job is not to pick a side but to make sure the losing side feels heard before the gavel falls.
A decision is made, documented, and sent before anyone leaves the room. You learn that most meetings fail not because people disagree — but because nobody is willing to say "we are deciding now."
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