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How to Keep Your HR Communications from Turning Into a Playtpus

Started by Frank · 10 months ago

[Photo credit: Tasmanian Government]
Paul Byron of the NYT called the platypus a classic animal design by committee. Look at that thing. He cites a poem about the composite animal:
I like the duck-billed platypus
Because it is anomalous.
I like the way it raises its family,
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  • Ron Ulrici

    11 months ago

    Frank,

    My take on HR "platypused communication" is that the message is frequently hard to understand by the average employee because of the legaleze and/or the use of jargon coined by Human Resources.

    The other problem is our tendency to candy-coat a negative message. Somewhere buried in that communique from HR is the information that the employee now has a copay that has doubled.

    Then we wonder why our PR is not so hot!

    I always tried to look at our HR communication from the employees' eyeballs.
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