The Setup
Setting the scene
Two colleagues you respect are barely speaking to each other. Both have separately asked for your opinion, and you can feel the invisible pressure to choose a side.
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The Third Party
→Two colleagues need your help resolving their conflict. Navigate informal mediation without taking sides or making it worse.
Part of the quest
Workplace Conflict
→Two colleagues, one disagreement, and an office full of people pretending nothing is happening. Navigate professional conflicts before they become toxic. You'll navigate four escalating scenarios — from the tension nobody names to the resolution — 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 conflict resolution 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 Third Party, a full interactive story inside the Workplace Conflict quest.
Skills you'll build in Workplace Conflict
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You agree to help mediate — and immediately realize you are in over your head. One person is angry, the other is hurt, and both believe they are entirely right.
The mediation takes a sharp turn when one party reveals something the other did not know. The room temperature drops. You have seconds to keep this conversation from imploding.
Both parties are looking at you, waiting for a resolution that feels fair. You are not a trained mediator — you are just the person they both trust. That trust is the only tool you have.
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