Monday, October 21, 2024

MUSINGS FROM A CORPORATE CAREER... Meetings with HR 

Meetings with HR are the worst: 

A) they lead nowhere 

B) you have to be politically correct 

C) you have to  agree with what they say because they are so correct

D) it is only when you come out of the meeting that you realise that nothing happened 

E) even though nothing happened, you are still left with a feeling of a vague inadequacy which can, according to HR, be rectified by following some vague prescriptions.

What HR told me I can  do to improve: 

Be more focused, and at the same time,  be more broad based in my thinking, 

Be more detail oriented, and at the same time be more strategic, 

Be more goal oriented, and at the same time be more people focused, 

Be more empathetic, and at the same time  be more task oriented,

Be more inclusive, and at the same time  encourage performance,

Encourage teamwork, and at the same time foster individual excellence,

Be more meticulous, and of course exhibit  high level thinking,

Be more empathetic, and at the same time  ensure discipline,

Don't use sexist, racist, homophobic, non inclusive language - by the way most words we normally use are sexist, racist or homophobic,  and of course be a better communicator,

Be more communicative and definitely  be more focused, 

Etc etc 

I have recieved a million suggestions from HR in my lifetime, some of them directly told to me by HR; some of them told to me by the India Head as told to him by HR to be told to us; and some of them told to me by my boss in our one on ones as told to him to be told to me by HR. 

All the suggestions sounded great when I heard them. I used to walk out of the meetings totally pumped up. 

But when I sat down to think about how to implement them, I would realise that not even one of those suggestions were actually implementable. 

I guess they were not meant to be

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