Imagine one of the employees you manage comes to you. Looking stressed out, he says $$The quarterly report to our funder is due tomorrow, and two of the people who are supposed to send me progress updates on their projects are out sick! We$$ll never finish this report in time.$$ What might a response that paraphrases look like?

a$.$

$$Don$$t worry about this. We$$ll figure it out.$$

b$.$

$$It sounds like you might not get the information you need by the deadline.$$

c$.$

$$You sound really stressed out about this deadline.$$