Comments on: How to Keep Your HR Communications from Turning Into a Playtpus http://www.knowhr.com/blog/2008/07/24/how-to-keep-your-hr-communications-from-turning-into-a-playtpus/ Know More HR. Mon, 15 Mar 2010 17:11:51 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: HR World » Blog Archive » Friday Links: HR Bloggers List, Being Found Online, Communications http://www.knowhr.com/blog/2008/07/24/how-to-keep-your-hr-communications-from-turning-into-a-playtpus/comment-page-1/#comment-3643 HR World » Blog Archive » Friday Links: HR Bloggers List, Being Found Online, Communications Mon, 28 Jul 2008 10:35:03 +0000 http://www.knowhr.com/blog/?p=875#comment-3643 [...] has some good advice on how to keep communications from being a palypus . . . just read it. [...] [...] has some good advice on how to keep communications from being a palypus . . . just read it. [...]

]]> By: Ron Ulrici http://www.knowhr.com/blog/2008/07/24/how-to-keep-your-hr-communications-from-turning-into-a-playtpus/comment-page-1/#comment-3640 Ron Ulrici Fri, 25 Jul 2008 21:31:20 +0000 http://www.knowhr.com/blog/?p=875#comment-3640 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. 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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