Knowing nothing of the field...

[abendgules]

...I invite you to read a chief exec's weekly message. This is in the public health field, in England, and is in the public domain.

Tell me: what do you think he's trying to say, and do?

For those of you who are business professionals: how do you respond?

Comments

[my-stitching.livejournal.com]

Here is my translation:
1. Our managers are currently shit. But some store does it well so we are going to try and be like them.

2. Good job, Derbyshire!

3. Something is happening in Sierra Leone which none of you care about because of number 1 above.

It is a terrible feeling to be in a job that sucks. I hope things improve for you one way or the other soon.

not verbatim

[ethnowoman.livejournal.com]

I read the PDF and would interpret it like this:

"We had a lot of people leave lately because our team morale was shit. But we've got a new guy in and Good Things will be happening soon. We hope. Anything is possible, right?"

[henrytroup.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't have clicked through to the pdf without a recommendation like yours. And having read it, I haven't idea why it is a public message, it seems purely internal.and also confused and confusing.

[siglinde99.livejournal.com]

Sadly, I understood what he was saying, largely because we used to use all the same buzzwords back when our organization seemed to care about its people. Now we don't even get the buzzwords. But yay for public health in Sierra Leone!

[gothwalk.livejournal.com]

I'm apparently so steeped in business communications these days that I didn't even register the buzzwords, and had to go back and look for them when I saw the comments above.

It's essentially "Someone told me they were quitting because of their line manager. They're not the first, so I've done the only thing I can think of: shunted the problem off to someone else. Please stop disliking your line manager; it makes assuming you're all cogs in the machine difficult. Also, as a cover for this pretense at humanity, here are two things I think will make humans feel good. Yours, the Chief Lizard."

I am, at this stage, becoming very cynical about downward communication in business organisations that aren't "this very specific thing is good, well done", "this very specific thing is not good, fix it", and "we would like you to keep working here, so here is more money/holidays/other perks". And, I suppose, there's truth in "you're fired". Everything else appears to be corporate bullshit, and I don't think either the bullshitter or the bullshitee believes a word of it.

[chequey.livejournal.com]

I just wish he'd run a comb through his hair before posing for the photo. The sticking-up-bits drive me crazy...