A One-to-One With Your Manager
How you're doing, what's hard, what's next.
- Them
How have the last two weeks been for you?
- You
Busy, but the work has been interesting.
- Them
Is anything getting in your way?
- You
I spend a lot of time in meetings.
- Them
Which ones could you drop?
- You
The daily one is not useful for my part.
- Them
Then stop going and read the notes instead.
- You
That would give me a real morning back.
In the app you can tap any word for a definition, and turn on a line-by-line translation in your own language.
Words in this dialogue
- lastfinal; the one before this; to continue for a time
- weeksperiods of seven days
- busywith a lot to do
- worka job; to function properly
- interestingholding your attention
- anythingany thing at all
- gettingto receive; to become
- spendto use money or time
- timethe passing of hours and minutes
- meetingsa gathering to discuss something
- onesresting upon
- dropto fall; to give up; to cut off (calls drop)
- dailyevery day
- usefulhelpful
- parta piece of the whole
- stopto end or halt; a bus stop
- goingmoving to another place
- readto look at words and understand them
- notesused to make something negative
- insteadin place of that
- giveto hand over
- realgenuine
- morningthe early part of the day
- backreturning; the rear
More in this situation
- Finding a Time8 turns
- Moving a Meeting8 turns
- Confirming the Agenda8 turns
- Joining a Video Call8 turns
- Arriving Late8 turns
- Giving a Status Update8 turns
- Disagreeing Politely8 turns
- Closing on a Decision8 turns
- Cancelling a Meeting8 turns
- Introducing a New Colleague8 turns
- Notes and Action Items8 turns
- Asking for Clarification8 turns
- Presenting to the Room8 turns
- After the Meeting8 turns