Nuka, a training coordinator at CMC Enterprises, is working on a team tasked with organizing a workshop for the employees. Nuka is meeting the vice president of finance to get support for an increase in the budget to accommodate a session by a well$-$known motivational speaker. Nuka, in this case, is performing a$($n$)\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_$blank activity of the boundary$-$spanning process.