# 50 workplace roleplay scenarios — one-page index
Real Talk Studio · August 2026 · https://www.realtalkstudio.com/blog/workplace-roleplay-scenarios

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## Coaching
1. Underperformance left too late
2. High performer coasting
3. Coaching someone more experienced than you
4. Defensive reaction
5. Coaching upward
6. Agrees to everything, changes nothing
7. After a public miss

## Feedback
8. Praise that lands flat
9. Minor correction, said early
10. Repeated behaviour already named
11. Feedback to a friend
12. Feedback to your boss
13. Feedback after a complaint
14. Feedback that might become a grievance

## Leadership
15. First team meeting after redundancies
16. Unpopular decision you disagree with
17. Banter that goes too far
18. Visible conflict between two reports
19. Saying no to your own boss
20. Holding a line with a senior stakeholder
21. “One more thing before you go”

## Customer service
22. Billing error, first angry call
23. Third call about the same bill
24. Abusive caller
25. Financial difficulty (Consumer Duty)
26. Bereavement
27. Confused elderly caller
28. Claim denied / refund refused

## Sales
29. Gatekeeper
30. “Send me an email”
31. “We already have a supplier”
32. Instant hang-up recovery
33. Competitor is cheaper at renewal
34. Discovery that turns into a dump

## Conflict
35. Two peers, one meeting
36. You were copied in anger
37. Mediating without taking a side
38. The joke that was not a joke
39. Remote conflict that only exists on Slack

## Compliance / HR
40. Colleague discloses harassment
41. “Keep this between us”
42. Hygiene conversation
43. Opening a PIP
44. Redundancy 1-1
45. Flexible working request

## Hiring
46. Tell me about yourself
47. What is your weakness?
48. Candidate who cannot be specific
49. You are not getting the promotion
50. Salary negotiation after a written offer

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