Hello, Besties. Thank you so much for joining us for another episode of H.R. Besties.

Before we jump into our staff meeting, we just want to say thank you so, so very much for an incredible first season. We had an awesome first season

because of you. Your support, your likes, your shares, your follows, you're listening, you name it.

We are so grateful that you're here. Now, if you didn't have the opportunity to join us at our

live holiday event, I wonder if that's perhaps a special bonus episode we should release next week.

Tis the season, right?

Happy holidays.

Talk about an awesome year in bonus.

Now, let's get this meeting started because as you well know, we have a hard stop.

Ashley, can you kick us off by running through the agenda?

Sure.

So we're going to start with the cringy corporate saying, Lee, if you're going to want to kick us off on that. And then we'll transition to our main agenda item, which is our hot topic on difficult conversations. And we'll have Jamie pick that up. Jamie, who has a hard stop when the meeting's scheduled to end. And then why don't we reserve some time at the end for some questions and comments? How's that sound?

That sounds fantastic.

All right. You want to kick us off with the corporate saying? Absolutely. So cringy corporate speak, right?

One of my personal favorites and by favorites, I mean, I absolutely loathe is low-hanging fruit. Have we all heard that one?

Yes.

Oh, my God. I used to do this kind of snarky thing where whenever somebody would say low-hanging fruit, I'd always say something like, yeah, the fruit's just on the ground, isn't it? Oh, my God, yeah, we just got to pick it up, right? We just got to pick up that fruit. Somebody grab a basket, right? So we can get a bushel of this shit here in the workplace. With grapes, please, so I can stomp on them. Exactly, yeah. So low-hanging fruit. And why don't we just, for fun, try to work that in to our staff meeting today? What do we think? Great. All right. A little challenge for us here. We'll try to work that in.

But Jamie, kick it to you here for the next agenda item.

Today's meeting is going to be about difficult conversations at work.

Yeah.

We've all had probably more than we'd like to share difficult conversations at work. By difficult, do you mean the

conversations that nobody else wants to have? So they let HR, go ahead and take this? A thousand percent.

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