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Always Invite Anna

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Re: Always Invite Anna

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This is some of the best advice you'll ever get about building inclusive teams and making people feel like they can approach you about anything.

If you can approach them and get rejected each time, then surely they can approach you for advice on how to approach a problem.

Re: Always Invite Anna

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That hero image I believe is from Lost in Translation

Which has an interesting scene the x-ray machines I think were flying overhead on these rails going between rooms

Re: Always Invite Anna

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post #7

That hero image I believe is from Lost in Translation Which has an interesting scene the x-ray machines I think were flying overhead on these rails going between rooms

Yes, the header is from Lost in Translation.

Re: Always Invite Anna

#9
This is also good advice if you're sensing people aren't as part of the group or team anymore, you...make them part of it again. Putting forth the effort (which may not be returned) of coordinating and including people is often the price of keeping a group together that you're leading or invested in.

Re: Always Invite Anna

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this reminds me of a friend who we've excluded from the group b/c of the age old advice of "the worst they can say is no". Well, we invited him to everything at first it was either no responses or late responses like "sorry was busy with work".

The whole friend group took their turns and attempts at inviting him.

It sort of stopped altogether when we started getting responses like "hey, don't call me without scheduling a call with me before" or getting a text 3 days later "hey what's up, I don't want to hang out".

He's a workaholic and believes his work is the most important thing (he switches jobs every 6-9 months) so the whole friend group has now just stopped trying.

For context, this has been going on for 10 years and about a year ago everyone stopped trying.

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