Tell me about a time when you convinced someone else on another team to reprioritize their work to achieve a common goal

Late January, 2026

The focus was in finding common ground, the interviewer focused a lot on mindset and the question does have traps (like convincing your work is important/more valuable). In hindsight, the goal seemed to be assessing all-round thinking outside of single-project context. Interviewer (HM) spent sufficient time to dissect the story inside out, paraphrase and then dig deeper into learnings from the experience, what would you do differently or how would you behave if you were the other party