Comments on: From Discombobulation to Recombobulation

By: Controlling authority | Managing Leadership

Controlling authority | Managing Leadership — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 17:40:55 +0000

[...] if that leaves you disoriented, then you may need to get recombobulated. Please be sure to see this piece by Frank Roche about where, exactly, you can do [...]

By: Frank

Frank — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 11:35:15 +0000

Kris, I'm glad to hear you've had parallel experiences. I am really
impressed with the TSA folks there...and that's saying something. I'm on an
airplane enough that I've had a good sampling of how it can go right and how
it can go wrong. I have to believe that the TSA leadership in Milwaukee has
it right and hires for good traits.

Funny sign, huh? I really liked that one. It made my day.

Frank

By: Kris Dunn

Kris Dunn — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 03:15:00 +0000

Frank – You're right, Mitchell in Milwaukee rocks. The last time I was there I had a hot chocolate and listened to a ARTIST play the piano in the lobby you described. Never saw the sign, but you are on the money about the TSA folks – best in the country…

Nice shout out and I agree – never saw the sign though….

By: Frank

Frank — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 00:36:17 +0000

You know, I think we all could use some recombobulation from time to time.
LOL...it's just a fun word to say...maybe we should do that every day.

Thanks for the good idea!

Frank

By: HR Good Witch

HR Good Witch — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 23:19:31 +0000

I love it. I think I'll add 'Recombobulation' to my personal goals. I think I could use a bit of recombobulating right now!

By: rick

rick — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 13:44:23 +0000

I LOVE the sign!

I thought where you were going with the story is why can't we not be consistently good across locations or share learnings better across locations. HR is not necessarily good at this.

As to humor, I work it into my verbal presentation as often as I can. I even sometimes wonder if I "go for the laugh" a bit too often. In written communications I tend to be mopre conservative. First, humor often needs the benefit of tone of voice to be most effective. Second, in a diverse workforce there are very different ideas of what is humorous. Finally, some will be critical of a company not taking the difficult times seriously--one can never win.

Having said all that, the bevy of dry, factual communications that come across my desk from HR are not terribly effective. I guess I would error on the side of well positioned humor...assuming that HR people have a sense of humor.