Scene to read · Collaboration, Ethics
Describe it as ours
You write grant applications at a small nonprofit, and tonight you are working with Fatou, a new junior co-writer.
The grant is due in an hour and would pay two staff salaries; the funder supports only groups already operating a tutoring program. A partner group has run one for three years, using your nonprofit's tutors and room, under the partner's name. Its director is on a flight. Ingrid, your director, leans over the boardroom table.
The scene
Ingrid: Call it our joint tutoring program. Our tutors, our room. One hour left.
Fatou: It's their program, though. Shouldn't they sign off before we say joint?
Ingrid: She's on a flight until midnight. She'd say yes. Two salaries ride on this.
Fatou: I'll write whatever you two decide. So which is it?
The two questions
- 1What would you say to Ingrid, and what would you write?
- 2When you work closely with a partner, how do you decide what counts as your own work?
What raters look for
- Collaboration
- Works toward a shared goal, shares credit and load, and repairs friction inside a team.
- Ethics
- Weighs competing duties honestly, protects people from harm, and stays accountable to rules and values.
Answer scenarios like this on the real timers
Answer both questions on the clock, and get each one scored 1–9 the way raters score. Your first set is free, no card.
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