Caught up with some old colleagues the other day and we were chatting about this and that and the subject of communication came up through a discussion about someone leaving the company and the subsequent, overly engineered and verbose email that followed from the boss in an attempt to explain the rather quick exit. A…
Last week, my (hopefully still!) good friend and twitter sparring partner, @TheHRD posted his frustration regarding HR’s annoying habit of talking irrelevant tactics when they could do a lot better by getting with the strategic program. The business strategic program. I know where he is coming from, but I took issue with a couple of…
I remember, looking back at my first job as a Personnel Officer that I took on all challenges with gusto and enthusiasm. But there was one particular area that seemed to bring sorrow and a sense of impending doom to employees, supervisors, union convener’s and managers alike – Performance Management. On any particular day I…
