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1. 🔊 What industry do you work in and what is your role?
2. 🔊 What are your responses in your role / position?
3. 🔊 Can you describe to the function of your workplace / company?
4. 🔊 How many departments, how many offices. National or International?
5. 🔊 What are the minimum requirements for employment ie Education or Experience?
6. 🔊 How many opportunities are there to ‘move up the ladder’?
7. 🔊 What is the process for changing job roles ie Interview? Test?

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🔊 General discussion about your workweek:

1. 🔊 Current projects? Deadlines? Opportunities?
2. 🔊 Anything of interest happening?

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Script

1. 🔊 In our day-to-day activities, challenges may inevitably arise in the workplace. How we deal with these challenges has a lasting impression not only on how others view us, but on our ability to manage our people and mitigate risks that may lead to things like burnout, feeling stuck in the same job with no growth, or simply being at odds with co-workers. So what are some common workplace challenges? Here are four, with tips on how to address them.

Lack Of Transparency From Leadership

2. 🔊 Transparency is critical to company success. If you are a leader who isn’t transparent with employees about problems or changes within the company, you’re creating a sense of unknown that sits in your employees’ minds and has an impact on every decision they make. With transparency comes openness, honesty, and a true shift in how you, as a leader, communicate every day with those you interact with in your work environment.

3. 🔊 When you are transparent, employees and teammates view you as approachable and trustworthy, which helps to create a psychologically safe environment and a culture where information flows freely. To create an environment of greater clarity, start with simple talks via town hall meetings, all-hands meetings or live chat meetings to address changes in the workplace that affect everyone and how they do their jobs.

Overwhelming Workloads 

4.🔊 We all sometimes feel overwhelmed due to an increased workload, not having enough hours in the day, or simply feeling like there’s too much going on in our everyday lives. When I speak with clients and colleagues in and out of the workplace, one of their biggest challenges is managing and prioritizing their time. So what can you do to help manage your time better?

5.🔊 First, make a to-do list, and prioritize what needs to be done now and what can be done another time. This will shift your mindset of clutter to be more organized, helping you to be more productive and efficient.

6.🔊 You can also reach out to your manager to discuss what support you might need and what’s within your bandwidth. Working closely with your manager to decide the best approach or a course of action will help take some of that burden off your shoulders. It’s important that your manager knows what struggles you’re facing, so don’t be afraid to ask for help for fear of looking incompetent.

7.🔊 Lastly, don’t be afraid to say no to extra projects or stretch assignments that you don’t have the capacity for. Remember, work-life balance is important, and so is your mental health.

Workplace Conflict

8.🔊 It’s easy to think that all relationships at work are harmonious, but we all know that’s not true. Workplace conflict can be as simple as a miscommunication during a meeting or while working on a project. Sometimes emotions run high. It’s important to make sure when issues arise that they are addressed and not ignored. Issues that are swept under the rug don’t resolve themselves. So what can you do to resolve conflict at work?

1.🔊 What makes a good boss and a good subordinate?

2.🔊 If someone is a junior and they work exceptionally hard, should they get the same salary as someone above them?

3.🔊 Do you sometimes get stressed at work? And how do you cope with it?

 

Keywords

1. 🔊 Transparency = The characteristic of being easy to see through:
2. 🔊 Via = going through or stopping at a place on the way to another place: 
3. 🔊 Prioritizing = to decide which of a group of things are the most important so that you can deal with them first:
4. 🔊 Clutter = (a lot of objects in) a state of being untidy:
5. 🔊 bandwidth = a measurement of the amount of information that can be sent between computers, through a phone line, etc.:the ability or time to deal with a situation, especially one that involves a large amount of information or a number of problems:
6. 🔊 Incompetent = not having the ability to do something as it should be done:
7. 🔊 Commonalities = the fact of sharing interests, experiences, or other characteristics with someone or something: