Comments on: The truth: Are we ready for it? http://commons.iabc.com/employee/2006/04/26/the-truth-are-we-ready-for-it/ A Blog Community for Business Communicators Wed, 15 Oct 2008 01:58:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Better Communication Results http://commons.iabc.com/employee/2006/04/26/the-truth-are-we-ready-for-it/#comment-600 Better Communication Results Fri, 30 Jun 2006 14:47:38 +0000 http://commons.iabc.com/employee/2006/04/26/the-truth-are-we-ready-for-it/#comment-600 [...] Small change got rained on with his own .38 (my favourite Waits song, by the way — stunning lyricism almost but not quite matched by the Ireland ‘live’ (not the studio) version of ‘My piano has been drinking’; only equalled by Tom’s mind-numbingly brilliant delivery in ‘Frank’s Wild Years’): Tom Keefe says what every person over the age of 25 has silently prayed for since email and instant messaging emerged as corporate and personal communication tools — that the network would somehow seize up and prevent the message from getting delivered. [...] [...] Small change got rained on with his own .38 (my favourite Waits song, by the way — stunning lyricism almost but not quite matched by the Ireland ‘live’ (not the studio) version of ‘My piano has been drinking’; only equalled by Tom’s mind-numbingly brilliant delivery in ‘Frank’s Wild Years’): Tom Keefe says what every person over the age of 25 has silently prayed for since email and instant messaging emerged as corporate and personal communication tools — that the network would somehow seize up and prevent the message from getting delivered. [...]

]]> By: Tom Keefe http://commons.iabc.com/employee/2006/04/26/the-truth-are-we-ready-for-it/#comment-510 Tom Keefe Wed, 14 Jun 2006 16:53:37 +0000 http://commons.iabc.com/employee/2006/04/26/the-truth-are-we-ready-for-it/#comment-510 Open, honest, candid communication...sure. But, no, I'm not ready to agree to spur-of-the-moment performance reviews. I can remember trying it a decade ago with a direct report. Never again! My comments weren't coherent, and I didn't have the right facts to back up my assertions. The direct report who had asked for the off-the-cuff "performance review" was upset. This experience is in my "book of learnings" under the heading of, "Things Not to Ever, Ever, Do Again." Employees who operate at "twitch speed" -- whether due to caffeine, andrenaline or youthful exuberance -- can benefit from learning that not all communication has to be immediate. Just ask anyone who has ever fired off a flaming email or instant message, and then prayed that the network would somehow seize up and prevent the message from getting delivered. (My hand is raised.) Open, honest, candid communication…sure. But, no, I’m not ready to agree to spur-of-the-moment performance reviews. I can remember trying it a decade ago with a direct report. Never again! My comments weren’t coherent, and I didn’t have the right facts to back up my assertions. The direct report who had asked for the off-the-cuff “performance review” was upset.

This experience is in my “book of learnings” under the heading of, “Things Not to Ever, Ever, Do Again.”

Employees who operate at “twitch speed” — whether due to caffeine, andrenaline or youthful exuberance — can benefit from learning that not all communication has to be immediate. Just ask anyone who has ever fired off a flaming email or instant message, and then prayed that the network would somehow seize up and prevent the message from getting delivered. (My hand is raised.)

]]> By: Lee’s new Better Communication Results blog http://commons.iabc.com/employee/2006/04/26/the-truth-are-we-ready-for-it/#comment-300 Lee’s new Better Communication Results blog Thu, 27 Apr 2006 13:09:25 +0000 http://commons.iabc.com/employee/2006/04/26/the-truth-are-we-ready-for-it/#comment-300 [...] Brad Whitworth over at the IABC employee comms blog points to a new book by Susan Scott, Fierce Conversations. [...] [...] Brad Whitworth over at the IABC employee comms blog points to a new book by Susan Scott, Fierce Conversations. [...]

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