Think30s if you want it
Answerabout 150 words
Follow-upsafter you finish
Coachsealed until you stop
Answer shapeStory
Situation 
Task 
Action 
Result 
target 150 words

Four beats: Situation, Task, Action, Result. Nothing is marked until you stop, because underlining a word while you are still speaking changes the next one.

The answerNot started
Situation · Task · Action · Resultfills in when you finish
Your coach note lands when you finish. Nothing is marked on your words until then, because reading a correction mid-sentence changes the next sentence.

Good practice for McKinsey & Company interviews

This one is a thinking-out-loud question. The interviewer wants the moves you made to define the problem before they care about the answer you reached.

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