Case: a food-delivery company faces a delivery-partner strike
Partners in three cities have stopped accepting orders over a change to per-order pay. Orders are down 40% in those cities, restaurants are complaining, and the change saved the company its entire quarterly margin.
An advanced-level session of about 10 minutes. You join 3 other speakers already in the discussion. You get 90 seconds to prepare before it starts.
There is a clock in this one that most groups ignore for the first five minutes. Orders are down forty per cent in three cities right now, restaurants are complaining right now, and a discussion that opens with the ethics of platform pay is solving next quarter while this quarter burns. Separate the immediate — get orders moving this week — from the structural question of what per-order pay should be, and you have given the room the structure it was missing. The hard fact is that the change saved the entire quarterly margin, so reversing it is not free and anyone proposing it owes the group a number. Restaurants are the third party nobody represents, and they can leave for a competitor permanently.
Angles worth taking
- Split this week from this quarter. Most groups argue policy while the immediate problem runs.
- Reversing the change costs the whole quarterly margin. Anyone proposing it owes a number.
- Restaurants are the unrepresented third party, and their switch is the one that does not come back.
- Three cities, not all of them — ask what is different there before generalising the fix.
- A partial or staged rollback is the obvious middle. Say what it concedes and what it holds.
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Preparation time
90 seconds
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Read the situation
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Take your prep time
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Get into the discussion
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Read the report
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Contribute real points, build on what others say, and hold your share of the discussion without dominating it.
Content
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Entry and airtime
Whether you got in at all, how often, and whether you held your share without running the whole room.
Listening
Whether you answered what was actually said. Building on someone, or disagreeing with their point specifically, scores far above a prepared line.
Delivery
Pace, clarity and steadiness under interruption — the part that decides whether a good point survives being made.
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