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Jargon is painful isn't it?


But basically it means, if you are put in charge of a team, can you manage them they way we (the company) want (or say we want) - you know, do appraisals, set objectives ("promise to brush up on those excel skills Barry?" - "yes boss") and review those objectives for each of your team. yadda yadda

Serious answer? Are we playing the game here?


I'd replace 'assisting' with 'promoting', 'achievable' with 'realistic but stretching' and 'regular supervision and monitoring' with 'continual and interactive support, direction and feedback'.


Hee hee.


Why are other people's jobs so much more fun?

Bloody hell, it's only heading up a new team advising and providing advocacy to visually impaired people, I could do that with my eyes closed (pardon the pun)! :(


Moos, are you serious, because...


"I believe in promoting the personal and professional development of those who report directly to me by setting realistic objectives and giving continual and interactive support, direction and feedback"


... Just sounds a bit too clever for me :-S


Bugger it, it's going in!


Maybe I'm safer in social services, although all this stupid speak is creeping more and more in to our office!

"I use SMART objectives to maximise the personal and professional development of my team."


HR jargon, gratuitous use of the word 'team' and POWER-VERBS for the win. (Ugh.) Now if only I could remember what smart objectives are... S-something, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic and T-something - probably targeted.


Good luck Keef. Hope the job's worth the jargon.

T = Timebound. ie you have to tell them by when they have to have the tea made.


Keef, yes I was kind of serious. Managementspeak is of course bollocks but being managed by someone who really wants ('promotes') you to get on, who actually sets objectives that you can make but aren't ridiculously easy, and who takes the time to talk to you, tell you how you're doing and how you can do it better is great. Not that you wouldn't do that anyway, but the point is if you are playing the application game, you might as well say 'I'm a good guy' in the language they've asked you to speak.

God, I hate management speak, hate it when I find myself doing it. The one that drives me potty at the moment is when I am asked to do a report in powerpoint slide format for people to "talk to" in a meeting instead of for them to use in a meeting where they are talking to other people.


This example doesn't even seem to make sense, "develop, review and implement objectives..." at best you develop the objectives, given them to your team to implement and then you review their performance against them.

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