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HR myths

Cat Jones

A lighthearted one for you all...

We've been recruiting a lot recently and a colleague in sales stated, "If we get more people in, you'll have to get a disabled person soon". He was under the impression that companies of a certain size MUST hire people with a disability. After pointing out that was totally untrue, we also had a positive conversation about disability is more than using a wheelchair...

What comments have you heard relating to HR that are totally not true?

Fake news? Fiction? Fantasy?

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  • From an L&D perspective:

    "There is no issue that cannot be resolved by hurling training at it, regardless of whether said issue is due to capacity, environment, bad management, lack of leadership or just plain questionable personality traits or attitudes!!

    So axiomatic is this that, even if the initial training achieves nothing, the sensible solution is to continue to hurl slightly different types of training at the same problem.

    Training is the panacea to all organisational ills, beware of L&D professionals selling you red herrings such as:
    There was no TNA or the TNA was not worth the paper it was written on
    Individuals may be choosing not to apply their new learning
    Individuals may see no benefit in applying their new learning
    Individuals may lack the motivation to apply their new learning
    Individuals may not have the capacity to apply their new learning
    Individuals may lack support to practically apply their new learning
    Individuals may not have been told what is expected in relation to practically applying their new learning
    There may be no downside or consequences for not applying their utilising new learning

    They will be telling us that there are other ways to develop staff next!"
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  • From an L&D perspective:

    "There is no issue that cannot be resolved by hurling training at it, regardless of whether said issue is due to capacity, environment, bad management, lack of leadership or just plain questionable personality traits or attitudes!!

    So axiomatic is this that, even if the initial training achieves nothing, the sensible solution is to continue to hurl slightly different types of training at the same problem.

    Training is the panacea to all organisational ills, beware of L&D professionals selling you red herrings such as:
    There was no TNA or the TNA was not worth the paper it was written on
    Individuals may be choosing not to apply their new learning
    Individuals may see no benefit in applying their new learning
    Individuals may lack the motivation to apply their new learning
    Individuals may not have the capacity to apply their new learning
    Individuals may lack support to practically apply their new learning
    Individuals may not have been told what is expected in relation to practically applying their new learning
    There may be no downside or consequences for not applying their utilising new learning

    They will be telling us that there are other ways to develop staff next!"
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