For this writing task, you’ll need to respond to the following scenario:

Who are you?

You are a team leader at Anders Consulting, a small but growing strategy consulting firm in Atlanta. For a little over three months, you have been supervising a team of junior-level management consultants, who just finished developing a strategic plan with a division of RGP Financial Services.

What’s the current situation?

The work you have supervised has involved a variety of research, interviewing, writing, and speaking activities. Part of your job as team leader is to collect and calculate ratings of each junior consultant’s performance based on his or her teammates’ input over the course of the RGP project. Table 1 shows the results for one of those junior management consultants, Kyle Houston.

What’s happening today?

Your boss, Inez Anders, sticks her head in your office after lunch and says, “I need to schedule Kyle Houston’s six-month review this afternoon.”

“Wow,” you reply, “has he been here that long already? Seems like he just got here.”