Jonas leaned forward, his face brightened. His concern about Rudy and wondering about Rudy’s capability turned to curiosity. “You’re right. Off the top of my head, here are a couple of things.”

I held up my hand. “Wait a minute, Jonas. We are not going to work off the top of our head on this. Our testing needs to be scientific, so we can make a valid judgment about Rudy’s effectiveness working at longer Time Span tasks.

“First we need to make a list of 2-3 things that we might challenge Rudy with. On that list, with each of the challenges, we need to determine the Time Span associated with the task. We have made a judgment that Rudy is effective at nine-months, so these challenges need to have Time Spans longer than nine-months.

“If we can identify a longer Time Span task and Rudy is effective at that task, we will have some confirmation for our decision. If we can test Rudy over 2-3 of these challenges, and he is successful, then he will actually earn the promotion. And we will some confidence that our decision is sound. Only then, do we make the promotion.” –TF