An office assistant approached their supervisor asking for three specific budgetary requests for

the office to help improve things for them, their coworkers, and the customers. The supervisor

responded, $$Please research the items you are requesting and then present that information to me$.$

I will consider each request and provide you with my response.$$

You will role$-$play this scenario with a partner. As the office assistant, you will communicate

your requests effective and persuasively to your supervisor, who will evaluate your requests and

then tactfully provide you with their response to each $($including at least one polite refusal$).$

Then, you will conduct a second role play, in which you and partner will reverse the roles.

Remember, you must consider the benefits of your requests to the supervisor, the office, and the

customers$/$clients$/$patients$,$ in order to increase the likelihood that your supervisor grants your

request. Also remember that both the assistant and the supervisor must use effective non$-$verbal

communication as well, including proper eye contact with each other. You are not permitted to

read your requests$/$responses to each other, just as you wouldn$$t likely do this in a real office job.