Scene to read · Resilience, Collaboration
A fence and a lock
You keep the volunteer rota for a neighborhood vegetable garden and run its monthly members' meeting.
The garden has no fence, by design. Overnight the vegetable beds were trampled, for the second time this year. Standing among the flattened plants are Cheng, who replanted them both times, and Thabo, who founded the garden twenty years ago. The members' meeting is tonight.
The scene
Cheng: Twice this year. I can't replant for nothing again. Fence and a lock.
Thabo: People with nothing pick tomatoes here at night. A lock tells them no.
Cheng: And no fence tells volunteers their work doesn't matter.
Thabo: A locked garden isn't a community garden. It's your meeting tonight. What will you propose?
The two questions
- 1What would you propose at tonight's meeting, and what would you say to Cheng and Thabo now?
- 2How do you decide when to protect something you built and when to accept its losses?
What raters look for
- Resilience
- Recovers from setbacks, manages stress constructively, and learns from failure.
- Collaboration
- Works toward a shared goal, shares credit and load, and repairs friction inside a team.
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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