Listening: Landing the Plane in Napa
Audiție: Discuții strategice în Napa. Ascultă o înregistrare despre o ședință de leadership tensionată și rezolvă exerciții de ascultare. Înveți cum liderii depășesc blocajele și ajung la un consens clar în cadrul echipei.
Аудирование: Стратегические дискуссии в Напе. Прослушайте аудиозапись о напряженном совещании руководителей и выполните упражнения на аудирование. Вы узнаете, как лидеры преодолевают тупики и приходят к единому соглашению в команде.
Landing the Plane in Napa
Day two of a chaotic engineering leadership offsite at a hotel in Napa Valley.
Landing the Plane in Napa
Listen and choose the right answer
What problem were Molly and Tyler facing at the start of day two?
- They ran out of coffee in Napa.
- Directors kept going off on tangents and couldn't agree.
- The hotel canceled their conference room reservation.
What technique did Molly use to break the deadlock?
- Silent brainstorming with sticky notes
- A formal voting ballot
- Cancelling the rest of the offsite
What was the surprising result of the exercise?
- Everyone had completely opposing views.
- Nobody wrote anything down.
- All twelve leaders wrote almost the exact same strategy.
What did Tyler agree to do immediately after the surprise?
- Go for a long walk in Napa
- Capture actions on the screen so they could have lunch
- Argue about Kubernetes pods again
Listen again and complete the sentences
- Tyler: Morning, Molly. I've got to say, looking at yesterday's notes, our ____ feels a bit shaky.
- Molly: That's precisely why we're in this alignment session, Tyler. Let's ____ around our core capability gap instead.
- Tyler: Fair enough, but Marcus and Sarah keep diverging into legacy database schemas every time we try to ____ .
- Molly: Marcus, let's park that issue for our afternoon ____ so we don't get bogged down.
Sources: photo by Vlada Karpovich on Pexels
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