Re:Don’t be spooky
by munchbunny on Saturday November 06, 2021 @03:18PM
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There’s a pretty simple fix for this too: “do you have a moment to talk about ____”? And if it’s benign, you can just say “I want to ask about ____”.
These days when you have chat as an alternative to saying it out loud with other people around, you can afford to tell someone what negative thing is coming: “hey when you have a moment let’s talk about how you handled _____”.
Then they know what’s coming. It might be unpleasant, but it’s not spooky.
And if you have to drop the news without a prior hint, regularly scheduled meetings can do that without people having their guards up.
Re:Don’t be spooky
by Breza on Monday November 15, 2021 @09:31AM
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I take it a step further. I try to write out the content of a meeting in an email so we're all on the same page and can skip the information sharing part. My meetings with my team tend to be very short.
These days when you have chat as an alternative to saying it out loud with other people around, you can afford to tell someone what negative thing is coming: “hey when you have a moment let’s talk about how you handled _____”.
Then they know what’s coming. It might be unpleasant, but it’s not spooky.
And if you have to drop the news without a prior hint, regularly scheduled meetings can do that without people having their guards up.