Complete the sentences with the words from the box

one-on-one · to open up · drift · give you a heads-up · to read between the lines · skip-level meeting · agenda item · career aspirations · recurring · disengaged · talking point · to check in

• Every Friday, I have a ____ with my manager in New York to discuss my performance.
• The main ____ for our meeting in Denver is the new cloud migration strategy.
• A key ____ during our discussion was the lack of automation in our CI/CD pipeline.
• Our manager likes ____ with us every Monday to ensure there are no blockers.
• It takes time for some quiet developers ____ and discuss their workplace challenges.
• During our sync, we discussed my ____ to become a principal architect within the next three years.
• I wanted to ____ about the upcoming system maintenance in our Boston office.
• We scheduled a ____ with the engineering director in Boston because our direct manager was away.
• Without clear goals, a team's focus can easily ____ toward less critical tasks.
• When developers feel that their ideas are ignored, they often become ____ and less productive.
• To understand why the engineer was unhappy, the manager had ____ during their talk.
• We set up a ____ calendar invite for our one-on-ones every Tuesday at our Seattle headquarters.

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