Story bench

Eight cards. Almost the whole exam.

Do not write ninety answers. Fill these eight. Each card is allowed to serve more than one theme. Keep each field to a few lines — you will speak from memory, not from this page.

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Influence without authority

You moved a decision you did not own.

Maps to Leadership Without Title, Teamwork

Story name

Setting — when, where, your actual role

The problem in one sentence

The decision you made

Result — a concrete change

The rule you still use

Teamwork friction, not the hero version

Someone was hard to work with. You changed the system, not just the story.

Maps to Teamwork, Conflict

Story name

Setting — when, where, your actual role

The problem in one sentence

The decision you made

Result — a concrete change

The rule you still use

A miss, then a rule you still use

Failure or hard feedback with a behaviour that changed.

Maps to Failure & Learning, Self-Awareness

Story name

Setting — when, where, your actual role

The problem in one sentence

The decision you made

Result — a concrete change

The rule you still use

An ethics tradeoff

Two real values collided. You chose.

Maps to Ethics Under Ambiguity, Conflict

Story name

Setting — when, where, your actual role

The problem in one sentence

The decision you made

Result — a concrete change

The rule you still use

A decision with a visible process

Incomplete information, named assumptions, a bet.

Maps to Incomplete-Data Decisions, Direction

Story name

Setting — when, where, your actual role

The problem in one sentence

The decision you made

Result — a concrete change

The rule you still use

Inclusion with actual friction

Not tourism. The difference created a problem, then a method.

Maps to Contribution & Inclusion, Teamwork

Story name

Setting — when, where, your actual role

The problem in one sentence

The decision you made

Result — a concrete change

The rule you still use

Outside-work, specific enough for wallpaper

A pastime, a person, an object. Survives a first-date prompt.

Maps to Unscripted Personhood, Self-Awareness

Story name

Setting — when, where, your actual role

The problem in one sentence

The decision you made

Result — a concrete change

The rule you still use

Goals paragraph

Role, three employers, skill gap, why this school, Plan B.

Maps to Direction, School Fit

Story name

Setting — when, where, your actual role

The problem in one sentence

The decision you made

Result — a concrete change

The rule you still use

Sit a timed drill