Mr Hoppenstedt wants to steer discussions away from questions of structure.
"If we, as H.R. professionals do our job well," she added, "we can help steer discussions from becoming confrontational between employees and their manager".
During a month I spent with her this summer as she drove around Germany giving speeches, she drew connections between politics and laboratory science, sprinkled her speech with Latin phrases, and steered discussions about German culture toward the cantatas of Bach.
Apart from supporting and safeguarding students' thinking on their way from current to desired understanding, teacher repair or enrichment serves as a reliable means to steer discussions towards certain ends (see also Ding et al. 2007).
"Why," they sometimes ask me, "do you steer discussions towards issues of race?" If friends are uncomfortable talking about race with each other around a table -- when we are all seated, relaxed and sipping wine -- then you can bet relative strangers rushing through a coffee shop wouldn't be crazy about it.
Our structure emerged from the motivation, explanations, and facilitation techniques that we used to encourage accurate recall and steer discussions towards final consensus.
We seek to steer discussions within research teams towards addressing key aspects of experimental design and analysis at the earliest stages of a study, and believe that this increased focus on planning will lead to more rigorous research and ultimately reduced wastage in preclinical research.
Others argue that parents are bound to steer discussion towards issues that affect their own children.
The bishops and the cardinal also steered discussion away from national headlines about sexual abuse of children by priests.
As they try to steer discussion on bulletin boards, the monitors pose as ordinary undergraduates, in a bid for greater persuasive power.
But he was also trying to steer discussion away from advertisements by the Bush campaign and supporters of Mr. Bush that Mr. McCain and many political analysts have deemed unduly negative.
