[Behavioral] Tell me about a time you had to facilitate a difficult workshop or meeting.

Instruction: Answer this as a meeting facilitation story where the discussion was difficult because of conflict, confusion, or competing agendas.

Context: Assesses whether the candidate can handle difficult facilitation dynamics and still produce useful outcomes.

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I facilitated a workshop once where the topic was already politically tense because different teams felt the existing process was creating extra work for them. Early in the meeting, people started defending their current approach instead of helping define the future state. It was clear that if I let the conversation continue that way, we would spend the whole session...

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