The meaning of "around" in these sentences

What's working around communication? What's not?

What's working for you around influence? What's not?

Please tell me the meaning of these sentences. I have problem with the word ((around)) and so I can't understand the meaning of these sentences.

These questions were found in a leadership coaching blog:

Coaching Questions to Explore with Clients:

1. What's working around communication? What's not?


2. Thinking about your team, what are their preferences around communication? What are your preferences around communication?


3. What are the strengths you bring to communication?


4. What are your communication blindspots?


5. What difficult conversations need to happen?

Coaching Questions to Explore with Clients:

1. What does influence mean for you?


2. What does influence look like?


3. Where is influence most important to you in your role/team/department?


4. What's working for you around influence? What's not?

Answer

This reads like the jargon common in self-help books, business schools, political workers, where you will see around in the sense of anything to do with.

Within their niche audiences, these kinds of sentences can have specific and useful meanings. Outside those audiences they can be very difficult, especially for learners.

• I need help around self-esteem (Self-help: I want to improve how I think about myself)


• We need to focus the problems around silo thinking (Business: Relationships between company departments is bad)


• We need policy work around health services (Politics: What should our health service policy be?)