May 10, 2022

Discussions With Your Boss

Three important types of discussions you can have:

1. Idea Improvement: they have an idea, but need some sparring to improve it before setting it loose.
2. Implementation: they already decided and now need you to sweat the details to get it going.
3. Venting: something is blocking above options, they just need someone to share the frustration.

The difficulty is that these 3 conversations can sound very similar, or start with one and jump to the other. You have to listen closely to identify which is the prevailing one — and you can’t ask directly, because it’s likely they don’t even know themselves.

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