It's that time again. They're looking for 9 and 10s for would you recommend Dell as a place to work.
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@7lnr+1sj1oNyq This is true and have seen it play out in real time. We had an amazing manager who got amazing results on the job but we had a horrible director who would tell you what an awesome job you were doing one minute and then ask you your name the next minute. He was almost universally disliked and our manager got shifted aside for him.
If you try to rank your manager high and your upper management lower it will still fall back on the direct manager. They will be told it is their job to ensure that their team has a positive opinion of the company.
As a manager I can nearly always tell who says what. And I have seen many times where direct reports have distorted the truth
Example: someone is accidentally overpaid and then has to make a payback. Even though they have a 1x1 and say they understand, they will blame rhe manager who has no control over payroll errors.
it's limited anonymity, and an ELT with a history of dismissing most employee opinions
As a mgr I can not see who says what, but it’s not hard to tell if you know your people or have ever paid attention to them. I get great mgr scores, but I’ve braced myself for the team to light up tell Dell on the corp scores. It is what it is and the way I see it, it’s their time to share their feelings. I’ll be sharing mine.
Everything is just fine...
I am going back and forth as to whether I'm actually going to respond this year. On the one hand, they don't take anything we say seriously. So, why fill it out? But then, on the other, there are definitely things I would like to say to about some of the recent changes in my org specifically (in addition to all of the company wide changes). If all of the people who were going to respond negatively don't even fill out the survey, the company score will average higher than it should.
wow, you have 1x1s. My manager doesn't bother with them nor does he write reviews . Probably why he always scores in the negative but somehow is still here.
I've been a manager. The report you receive as a manager is anonymous. Sure someone in HR could ask Perceptyx to reveal a respondent's name, but I have never heard of that happening. Luckily I scored well, but it is human nature to wonder who wrote something critical. I had a critical comment and the writer ended up telling me in a 1x1, which is how it should work. As a manager, I want to know what my team thinks, so we can make things better.
It’s anonymous but I heard some managers try to guess the writing style. They also have other members of your team schedule 1:1s or round table, which also doesn’t do s%#*t, other than possibly make the guessing game much easier for them.
Minus 40 is nothing. I know of a current manager who is well-liked and well-respected who had a -130 one year. And I know of really bad managers who scored 95 and above.
@1iqo+1sj1oNyq, stop spreading lies.
@1rcj+1sj1oNyq, not true. It is anonymous. If you believe it's not, give me one example where any actions have been sourced because of feedback in Tell Dell.
@arx+1sj1oNyq, don't lie. You can give your manager good scores, but ELT/Dell bad scores.
I know that this is the "real" Tell Dell and it's not anonymous. HR knows that which is why they watch things here
the same managers coaching you that also gave you a 1% raise and took money out of your bonus. Ya....payback time.
I was a manager before I moved to OPS. I can say this: I have seen many outstanding managers with negative scores. All it takes is 1 or 2 disgruntled employees. The managers I knew who received high scores were coaching their team on how to answer. So, yes, Tell Dell is worthless.
Only fools believe that tell dell is anonymous and that any good comes from it.
Its an HR tool to determine who to put on the WFR list
Tell Dell is manipulative in how our leaders are scored poorly if we don’t recommend our friends and family to work here. I don’t recommend them to work here because of layoffs and rto policies and that make us unequal based on our geography. It has nothing to do with ,y direct manager whom I like.
IM NOT TAKIMG THE SURVEY THIS YEAR BECAUSE ITS ALL BS AND THEY DONT LISTEN EITHER WAY.
Last year my X-Manager (Yay) got a -40 on Tell Dell, it took almost a year for Dell to get rid of her. While at the same time Dell fired many hard working employees.
One of the things I used with Tell Dell for the Open Ended questions was to use Google Bard (or whatever it is called now) to rewrite my responses to help make it less obvious that who I was. Though I am sure Dell can trace every survey back to us if they wanted to.
While I agree the Tell Dell is mostly worthless. Don't let bad managers get off. Give them the marks that they deserve.
The only person that negative results will affect is your direct manager. Our team had an awesome manager and a terrible director. Our results indicated as much and yet the manager got removed. It is a silly exercise because it is ambiguous enough to have results skew in whatever fashion they desire.
71% of you felt a lack of direction from senior leadership so congrats we are bringing you back to the office to be closer to our senior leaders.
then the survey is useless.
I’m going to lie my butt off on tell dell. I’m not going to let my manager who I genuinely care for get roasted because senior leadership is braindead