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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I typically send her an email (names made up):
Susan,

I couldn't find any availability on your calendar for the next few weeks. We need to finish the project due Thursday to Melissa by Wednesday, so we can run through the presentation. Please give me three times Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday after 10 am ET since Soo, Damian, Portia, and Erik are on the west coast. If you are unable to attend, please send Roger or Miguel in your place or another delegate.

Thanks,
Avery

She sent me an email "we are so incredibly busy, no one is available". Roger and Miguel messaged me on our interoffice Messenger that they were in fact available, but that she had blocked three hour individual meetings with each of them. They feel she will retaliate. I also gave this info back on her 360 review. What is crazy is that if she messages you or emails you, she wants it right away. I think it's intentional to have less work.[/quote]

This email is soooo constraining though.  She's not your subordinate, she's your equal.  Use he scheduling assistant to pick a time when the majority of the group is free, and, importantly, when Roger or Miguel are free.  Then send a meeting invite with a descriptive subject heading and a clear description of the purpose of the meeting in the body of the meeting invite.  Let her prioritize whether she wants to attend; she will see her delegates on there, so she can decide. If I got your email, I would be really off-put and a tad overwhelmed.  If I got a meeting invite with clear goals for the meeting with other members of my team also on the invite, I'd read it, assess whether it is important enough that I need to be there or whether my staff could handle it, and RSVP accordingly.  (I'd probably RSVP tentative to keep the option open and make sure the meeting had coverage.)[/quote]

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