Practise the standard verbs for running a useful skip-level meeting.
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Fill in: 'We ___ regular skip-level meetings between senior leadership and individual engineers, since a manager's summary alone can quietly filter out real, useful concerns.'
We 'hold a meeting' — the standard, simple collocation for running a scheduled skip-level conversation. The other options are less idiomatic here.
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Fill in: 'Relying only on a manager's relayed summary instead of skip-levels can ___ a genuine team concern never actually reaching anyone senior enough to act on it.'
We say skipping skip-levels will 'leave' a real concern unheard — the standard, natural collocation for the resulting gap. The other options aren't idiomatic here.
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Fill in: 'We ___ the conversation around the engineer's own priorities, not a status report the manager already covers, since that's precisely the gap a skip-level should fill.'
We 'frame a conversation' — the standard, simple collocation for shaping the focus of a meeting. The other options are less idiomatic here.
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Fill in: 'We ___ anything genuinely actionable back to the direct manager afterward, with the engineer's knowledge, rather than letting concerns quietly go nowhere.'
We 'feed back information' — the standard, simple collocation for passing relevant input to the right owner. The other options are less idiomatic here.
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Fill in: 'We ___ confidentiality where an engineer explicitly asks for it, since a skip-level that never protects candour stops getting any honest input at all.'
We 'respect confidentiality' — the standard, simple collocation for honouring a request to keep information private. The other options aren't idiomatic here.