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More Adventures With Stacy And Jean In HR
By Ron | November 18, 2009
Jean: Stacy, I have an idea.
Stacy: Oh, I can’t wait to hear it.
Jean: No, seriously Stacy, I just want to talk like we used to. You know, when we used plain language. I also think it might help us with our coworkers in the other departments too.
Stacy: What in the world are you talking about?
Jean: Stacy, in plain language what is our mission here in HR?
Stacy: To optimize our talent management initiative by…
Jean: Stacy! Let me interrupt and rephrase it for you the way I want. “Hire great people and help the company be a great place to work” or something like that.
Stacy: I don’t know, that doesn’t sound very lofty or important enough to me. Besides that, I’ve been to many outside Human Resource meetings and conventions and they don’t talk like that anymore.
Jean: Frankly, Stacy, I don’t care about that. We need to communicate in terms that everyone, including me, can understand. Futhermore, I don’t care about that table you talk about all the time either. I’m going to sit at my own table and get them to come to me. And, they’ll come too if they want what we have to offer, but first they need to understand what we have to offer.
Stacy: Well, look at you. I kind of like the new Jean. So, where do we start?
Jean: Well, let’s look at our employee communications and eliminate all of our jargon. Oh, first we should talk about our mission statement…
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