I got an email this morning that was sent to “Select E3 Employees” saying “Building Our Skills for What’s Next” and it goes on to say we have to take a mandatory training (that’s personalized to our role) by end of November….geared around shaping what’s next for business and preparing for the future.
Should I be nervous?
@1ab YES, this! If Human Resources cannot be professionals and rise above their petty ideologies, THEN they have absolutely NO business being in that profession and should written up or fired if they wrongly caused another human being’s livelihood just because HR didn’t like how that person voted or they had some racial hang up on a Caucasian person (which is also a race, we all need to remember), or Human Resources didn’t like their religion or whatever the case.
Point is, we are all supposed to be grownups! So, keep your ideologies at home and out of your decision making processes in the workplace!!!
@1a9 Well, they need to be careful with that because well for every action there can be a reaction. That is not any kind of veiled threat. Just saying that if you truly want everyone to be the same, then it goes totally against that if HR then tries to get rid of anyone right wing, anyone say who is white and a man, anyone who believes in a creator and a savior.
Someday I may very well be in a great high leadership place with a company and some of these very same HR people may be applying for a job with me, sitting across the desk from me. Hmmm, how will I handle that interview, I wonder.
@1a8 To some people, ideology is life.
@19w Yeah, I have a feeling as soon as my direct leader and HR found out that I leaned right wing, that was it for me.
Very shameful on HR taking it upon themselves to make decisions based on their own liberal ideology. Especially when it comes to people’s lives and quality of life.
I served my country in the military and getting canned just because I am right wing and someone didn’t like that, is really a low blow.
The politicization of corporate HR departments traces back to the universities where leftist indoctrination occurs. Leftist professors ensure their graduating minions play a role in the long march through the institutions. Plus, HR doesn’t require much higher order mathematical ability, so the pool of graduates tends to be on the shallow end.
@149 well they already have >>an independent team could be created where their entire job is to monitor and scrutinize and regulate how people leaders are to be leading their people and have consequences when they are not doing so correctly.
Its called the cabal of kiss a-s directors who decide if a team is being led correctly - I think you meant to say obiediently. That is how it is measured.
Marketing is bloated and Sales is Bloated - when you sell a big account - usually by giving them free stuff they are not paying for - Sales doesn't get a 1.2% merit and maybe a pair of socks or a pen - they get a trip to Costa Rica - with a pal - and Operations who does all the work to kiss the accounts a-s gets nothing!
I would just add, using an analogy, if you were on a budget and were building a computer motherboard, and in this analogy the engineers (those with actual Computer Science degrees) are the CPU, the brains as it were, and the HR department was the Video card, and the Marketing department was the Sound card, you would not want to short change and buy a cheaper slower weaker CPU just so that could purchase a better Video card or Sound card.
Does not make logical sense on putting a premium on ancillary (nice to have) items, if it means slowing down your company where it really matters. And I would argue that it is the Engineers that probably carry the largest weight (burden) in the success of the actual running of the business and ensuring that the day to day operations continue on without a hitch.
The company has lost site on how and where to value each department. And I don’t mean “value” in some touchy feely way. I would say that if there is not already such a system, there should on a high level be a numerical value system for each role groupings. And Engineering should be rated far higher than both Human Resources and Marketing.
@146 I sort of agree. Although, being pro-human, I am hesitant to say use AI to replace any human.
But with that said, I do think that HR should not be mandated for all the what I will call “extraneous” stuff they do like with all “coaching” videos, etc. HR should just do the very basics that HR used to do in the 1970’s.
And then the company would not need hundreds of HR persons basically making philosophical decisions in trying to force their own “psychological” bent beliefs and views. HR should not need an MBA in psychology or sociology. Craziness!
The money saved by trimming down HR could then be used for two things.
One thing, an independent team could be created where their entire job is to monitor and scrutinize and regulate how people leaders are to be leading their people and have consequences when they are not doing so correctly. We all believe that leaders should be held to a hire standard. So, doesn’t it make sense that when being held to a higher standard, your role should be scrutinized at a much higher level?
Second thing, a think tank could be created or if already created could be expanded to create new innovative ideas for helping the company, hopefully in a good and honorable way.
Also, as an aside, not only do I feel that HR is much too bloated, I also feel the Marketing department is way too bloated.
@zj HR at this place has become a joke. AI could easily onboard new hires - HR is clueless truely when it comes to dealing with an employeee - they clearly have no experience in how to "exit" an under performing associate - the amount of proof you need over an extended period of time is ridiculous -and there should be a 90 day probationary rule like there is in most companies. But no - let them sc--w up over and over and drag it out -
Really meed to get back to the basics with HR. Human Resources should simply be doing the simple functions of onboarding new employees, making sure they are in the system, have auto-pay set up and their W4 information filled with number of dependents, any necessary termination paperwork required when an employee leaves and that is about it. None of all this other crud they have taken on and definitely no DEI nonsense. If we reduce HR to the basic things, HR department could be reduced down to maybe half a dozen persons at the very most for even a corporation this size.
@w9 makes sense to take classes that have nothing to do with your job - you know the same sense it makes to go into an office to colloborate with total strangers who have no clue what you do and vice versa
Our whole team got several of those classes. HR decides to push classes based on what they think you should take. We're taking classes that have nothing to do with our jobs. Im not sure you should worry.
At least your boss didn't assign you a goal to improve her AVS by 2 full points. I could if she'd stop terrorizing my employees.
Part of our incentives this year is the completion of training modules. If your leadership didn't tell you that, they are not doing their due diligence. There's no conspiracy here other than the org being able to taut "we have the most educated work force" type of hyperbole. Signed, management.
Yesterday I also got such an email to "Select E3 employees" although I did not see the clause about the Enterprise Skills Academy Journey being assigned as personalized to my role. What I was left wondering was what was the criteria for selection. Was it perhaps based upon criteria that skills were lacking and to take this as a hint. If so, it could be regarded as an act of intimidation disguised under cover of routine need for training. To add to it there was a note to reach out to my HR representative for questions and support. When I asked pulse assist who my HR rep was and how to contact him or her, the reply was that I no longer had one. Where does this end?
@as Humans will be replaced with AI. Elevance will still make it expensive for practices to use, but cheap for them because AI will do everything.
@aq Doesn't this place sell sell sell to accounts for Case Management? Charging them an arm and leg for upgraded programs that are highly personalized - how exactly does AI replace those department staff? It's alot of the bread and butter of this place - all about MEMBERSHIP -
@ab HaHa! Thanksgiving & Christmas has been cancelled this year! Everyone needs to focused on mandatory training…because we need for you to know how to properly train AI how to do your job so that we can let you go. ~signed Management
All kidding aside, I genuinely sympathize with you all.
You’re going to learn how to train AI to do your job.
what recycled kr-p - did you keep your mood elevator - plan on "being here now" - this place has zero visionary ability and is a circlej--kof "sounds great to me"
Remember its almost November - time for a ton of boatload "mandatory training"
Maybe; I read this as an early-stage organizational change-management communication disguised as a professional development announcement. The direct translation in my mind is: the capabilities that made us successful in the past may not be sufficient for the future, and we expect employees to take an active role in closing that gap.