I was preparing to facilitate a day-long meeting for a new team leader. He had just joined the organization and was pulling together the team of direct reports he had inherited. As we discussed his objectives for the day, he mentioned that what he really wanted was “juicy discussions.”
By “juicy discussions” he meant conversations about important topics where people speak candidly about the issues and get to the heart of what’s really going on. Juicy meant messy and it meant he didn’t want people to play it safe.