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Quality of CIPD online discussions

Amanda Claire Baldwin

This is my first foray into the mist of CIPD online discussions and I have to admit to being a bit disappointed with the quality of some discussion for debate. 

Not to say that the items listed are not relevant but I think it would be better to have an 'advice section' for those individuals who have simple questions about practice to be answered? 

Then the space for discussions can be recogised and valued more as one where real debate will occur.

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  • You are absolutely right David and I think the "problem" some readers have with "Communities" is resolving the apparent paradox of reading material of the accuracy and authority of the "Times" sometimes presented in the terminology of the "Sun" (if not the Dandy and Beano....sorry, I'm showing my age again by my choice of comics aren't I) ...occasionally mixed up Sun-level myth and rumour!


    It's a bit like meeting your GP in the street dressed in a T-shirt and jeans when your mental image of how they "should" look is in the suit etc. they wear in the Surgery!


    Heather's comment makes what I feel is an essential point, however: That communities does more than simply provide answers like an on-line text-book; it is people it is debate and disagreement and consensus and compromise: It is a guide not a pathway but it is also a point of contact showing that the words are not edited fact-checked text but someone else suffering the same problems you are having, being irritated by the same issues, facing the same imponderables.


    ...and sometimes the same interests, tastes, senses of humour or the ridiculous and perhaps even philosophies and values as you.


    The answers may not be textbook or all "PC"; the words may be Latin or Chav; but it is what it says it is: a Community; where no-one is excluded and no-one need be professionally alone.


    (...And more serious discussions can always go "off site" through the "contact" links)


    I wish it had been here when I started off in HR!


    Peter  

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  • You are absolutely right David and I think the "problem" some readers have with "Communities" is resolving the apparent paradox of reading material of the accuracy and authority of the "Times" sometimes presented in the terminology of the "Sun" (if not the Dandy and Beano....sorry, I'm showing my age again by my choice of comics aren't I) ...occasionally mixed up Sun-level myth and rumour!


    It's a bit like meeting your GP in the street dressed in a T-shirt and jeans when your mental image of how they "should" look is in the suit etc. they wear in the Surgery!


    Heather's comment makes what I feel is an essential point, however: That communities does more than simply provide answers like an on-line text-book; it is people it is debate and disagreement and consensus and compromise: It is a guide not a pathway but it is also a point of contact showing that the words are not edited fact-checked text but someone else suffering the same problems you are having, being irritated by the same issues, facing the same imponderables.


    ...and sometimes the same interests, tastes, senses of humour or the ridiculous and perhaps even philosophies and values as you.


    The answers may not be textbook or all "PC"; the words may be Latin or Chav; but it is what it says it is: a Community; where no-one is excluded and no-one need be professionally alone.


    (...And more serious discussions can always go "off site" through the "contact" links)


    I wish it had been here when I started off in HR!


    Peter  

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