H · Professional responsibility and work style

Attribution

Separating personal contribution from the team’s.

Classification boundary

Include: Include distinguishing personal, team, prior, and external contributions.

Choose a neighboring leaf when: Use integrity for truthful disclosure and ownership for decisions and actions affecting results.

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22 questions

Choose a group based on the evidence you need. Groups follow existing question formats, not difficulty or mandatory prerequisites. Each batch has up to eight questions.

Judgment and options3

Compare goals, constraints, options, and trade-offs.

Questions 1–3

You deliver an analysis and proposal with substantial AI help for research, code drafts, and documentation, while you own problem framing, validation, and final decisions. How would you explain contribution to the team?
Revenue targets were met while channel budgets, product experience, and sales processes all changed. How would you separate contributions and explain causal limits?
Another team provided resources at a critical moment. You did not manage them, but clarified dependencies, negotiated priority, and prepared alternatives. How would you describe your impact?

Experience and reflection19

Use past facts to examine contribution, results, and learning.

Questions 1–8

You are writing the summary of a high-impact project, but its result came from several teams and a key decision was not yours. How would you represent your contribution, others’ contributions, and the responsibility you carried?
A public update describes a result completed by several people as one person’s contribution, damaging trust. How would you verify the facts and respond?
Retention improves after changes by product, operations, and customer success. How would you explain your contribution without overstating causality?
The team exceeds its goal and you prepare to report management impact. Team members say they solved the key problems themselves. How would you describe your role accurately?
A project slips due to estimation errors; information was incomplete, incentives favored optimistic commitments, and you failed to escalate. How would you describe responsibility?
Task completion improves after a redesign, alongside copy, performance, and support-training changes. How would you describe design’s role?
A data platform has no direct revenue, but several teams use it to improve analysis and operations. How would you describe platform contribution and its limits?
As an important project enters promotion review, two contributors both say they proposed the key solution. The project record contains the final decision but not the discussion. As a participant or lead, how would you reconstruct events, describe contributions, and handle what remains uncertain?

Questions 9–16

In this project, did you mainly shape direction, implement professional solutions, or coordinate delivery? How did those actions affect the specific problem and the business outcome?
Tell me about a time you handed credit, information, or a decision to someone better placed. How did you judge that was the right move?
Choose an outcome delivered by several teams that you need to explain in a review or promotion case. What problem did you define, which key judgments did you make, and what actions did you drive? Which contributions belong to others, and what evidence supports your account?
If you had not been there, what would have been different? Did your contribution change a single result, or make this kind of problem easier to solve?
You present a successful project to a review committee. A senior leader made a key decision; you executed it and identified risks. How would you describe the team outcome and your responsibility?
You led an architecture change that improved reliability but did not move conversion. How would you report value, failed assumptions, and your next responsibility?
Your portfolio shows a shipped design that changed through research, operations, and engineering input. How would you present your original judgment, adopted work, and rejected ideas?
You met your own commitments, but the team missed its target. A reviewer attributes the whole result to you. How would you acknowledge shared accountability and explain your impact?

Questions 17–19

A quarterly review credits you with most of a project, but a colleague resolved the key launch risk. How would you correct the record and preserve both contribution boundaries?
You inherited a mature process and results improved further. How would you separate the foundation you received, your new decisions, and the natural trend?
The packet says your work reached five teams but does not show how you influenced them or what you owned. Which decision, behavior, and outcome evidence would you add?

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