Scenario 2 — Workplace integrity

Situation (full narrative)

Mark works for a regional construction company and has generally liked the job. He has been there long enough that people trust him, and most weeks things feel pretty straightforward.

Last week his supervisor asked him to “clean up” some numbers on a performance report before it went to upper management. At first Mark assumed it was just a formatting thing or maybe a calculation error. But when he looked closer, the numbers weren’t wrong — they were just… not great. The project had run over budget and behind schedule.

The supervisor told him it would “look better” if the report reflected what the team expected the final numbers to be rather than what they were right now. He said everyone does it and that upper management mainly cares about the trend anyway.

Mark has been turning this over in his mind all week. Part of him feels like maybe he is being overly rigid and that this is just normal workplace pressure. Another part of him keeps thinking that changing the numbers would cross a line he does not want to cross.

He has not changed anything yet, but the report is due tomorrow morning and his supervisor has already asked twice if it is ready.

Training exercise

• Write the situation in one clear sentence without assuming motives.
• Identify the actual decision pressure in the story. What exactly is the person being pushed to do?
• Separate the integrity issue from the fear of consequences (job security, reputation, conflict).
• List which parts of the story are facts and which parts are interpretation or worry.
• Choose one Authority card that establishes who governs truth and outcomes.
• Choose one Identity card so the intercessor prays from alignment rather than fear.
• Choose one Situation card that names the real issue driving the tension.
• State the prayer focus in one short sentence.