Leadership tries to make everything sound reassuring, but it's so easy to see through the scripted lines. The tough questions never get answered. They just conveniently ignore them every single time. It’s more than obvious that it’s all just for show. Sad and disappointing.
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@tz you know you messed up when the quiet people start speaking up.
@tw @ty I was also in that meeting. I know the person that spoke up. They are typically quiet and soft spoken. I considered her a bit of a brown noser and I was shocked that she was the one that asked the question about the demotions. The HR rep also did not have a real explanation for how demotions made us more agile. Just a lot of bumbling about job families.
@tw I was in that meeting. Asking how demotions contributed to agility was a legitimate question that we all want the answer to. Leadership did not seem happy being put on the spot. They were likely expecting soft ball questions.
Someone in our division town hall asked, not anonymously, how demotions achieved the stated goal of agility. The GPs responded with a non answer but then someone else followed up asking about the risk of being offshored. Again no answers were received but leadership turned bright red and got flustered. We need more of that.
I'm not sure how other divisions are doing their townhalls. The Legal and Compliance division uses Slido for associates to ask anonymous questions. We are able to look at Slido and upvote certain questions. While we may not get all the answers we want. KG and JG do a good job of reading and addressing the tough and even snarky questions.
Who actually asks the questions that get "answered" at Town Halls? Id love the opportunity to actually ask a question and get an actual answer. PP used to actually answer questions in a bi-weekly Amplify column. Now- nothing. And we cant ask anything anonymously anymore. I'll watch the next Town Hall with my popcorn bucket on my lap.
Performative ar best. Inauthentic as heck.
Until they start being open and authentic, or using tangible communication, I'm not wasting my time. I don't care that Chubitch wants to be a Fortune 100 firm. Read the room you goblins.
The town hall meetings are worthless because the questions are all preselected and we see the panel reading from their notes to answer questions. It is down right insulting.