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Define the mandate before asking someone to stand in
This proposed workshop examines twelve fictional acting assignments whose administrative records conceal different responsibilities. Participants would distinguish full supervision from limited coordination and identify the authority, support, recognition and review point each arrangement needs. I would retain the production team's need for a quick response and finance's concern about an unexplained precedent, rather than present one function as the source of every problem. The exercise includes my approval mistake and the cost of correcting it. Its intended output is a clearer account of a temporary request, not a universal payment rule or an automatic route to promotion. Qualified employment review remains necessary for actual arrangements. This is a proposed session using invented materials, with no claimed appearance, participant outcome or real employee case. Any delivered version would need an agreed scope and appropriate permissions before using an organisation's own records or discussing an identifiable person's assignment and the decisions surrounding it.