More “Don’t Say It Unless You Mean It”

Our post yesterday called Don’t Say It Unless You Mean It got some really great comments that I wanted to move to the front page. Here they are.

Ron Ulrici of R&S Associates Blog (a great read…add them to your RSS feed) wrote a set with the comment that “We in HR should set the standard for doing, not just saying.” Great advice, Ron. He writes:

Don’t say “empower” when you really mean delegate with strings attached.

Don’t say we have an “open door policy” when there are ramifications for the employees who dare enter the big boss’s office.

Don’t say “we have values here” when employees who ignore them are promoted anyway.

And Jenn Barnes, who many of you know as HR Wench (she recently told us that HR Wench isn’t the name on her birth certificate), wrote:

#1 communication SNAFU that drives me up the wall is “we have an open door policy” when they DON’T.