Which of the following workplace practices would you rush to abolish?
- Twelve or six month performance evaluations
- Weekly staff meetings
- Casual Fridays
- Executive parking spaces
- Executive dining rooms
- Motivational posters
- PowerPoint presentations
- Hip job titles
- Recognition plaques
- Gold watches as retirement gifts
6 comments:
How could you go past PowerPoint presentations? You should need a license to drive them.....
I never realized how much I love weekly meetings until I worked in a company where people must earn the privilege. I went two years getting organizational pass-down off the rumor mill. I learned to love annual reviews when I met a manager who offered no feedback all year, and then hinted that an employee who wanted to discuss annual eval was "high maintenance." In an ideal world you don't need such crutches, but in a broken culture, they're golden. My org would be glad to chuck such communication mandates, but I wouldn't!
Bob,
The deft use of an overhead projector would beat many PowerPoint presentations.
Anonymous,
A weekly meeting is preferable to no meetings at all, but there are much better options between those extremes. The same goes for evaluations.
Michael
Casual Fridays. Horrible.
Kurt,
They are a celebration of lower standards.
Michael
Better to ask which one I would keep.
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