Listening: A Surprising Turn in the One-on-One
Audiție: O întorsătură neașteptată. Ascultă o conversație video între doi colegi și rezolvă întrebările de ascultție pentru a înțelege mai bine situațiile tensionate din echipă.
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A Surprising Turn in the One-on-One
Sean and Lauren meet for their weekly check-in via video call.
A Surprising Turn in the One-on-One
Listen and choose the right answer
Why did Lauren enter the meeting feeling stressed?
- She had prepared to hand in her notice because she felt stuck in her current role.
- She had failed to meet the release deadline for the payment integration.
- She was worried that Sean was planning to fire her during the one-on-one.
What had Sean planned to tell Lauren originally?
- That she was assigned to maintain the legacy codebase alone.
- That he wanted to nominate her for a lead role on the platform team.
- That her skip-level meeting had been canceled by leadership.
What misunderstanding caused tension before the meeting?
- Lauren assumed Sean would ignore her desire to do infrastructure work.
- Sean thought Lauren wanted to switch to product management.
- Both believed the Austin office was closing down.
How do Sean and Lauren resolve the situation at the end?
- Lauren decides to take a two-week break before making up her mind.
- Sean agrees to let Lauren work remotely on frontend APIs.
- Sean submits the transfer paperwork to move Lauren to the platform team.
Listen again and complete the sentences
- Sean: Thanks for jumping on, Lauren. It's our recurring ____ , but you mentioned you had an urgent agenda item today?
- Lauren: Yeah, thanks Sean. I wanted to ____ because I feel like things have started to drift on our team lately.
- Sean: Really? I was going to bring up your ____ today, but you look quite stressed.
- Sean: Wait, what? Are you seriously feeling that ____ from our current cloud microservices project?
- Sean: Ah, so that was the unspoken ____ during last week's sprint review. I was trying to read between the lines!
Sources: photo by Vitaly Gariev on Pexels
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