HR Speak

I have just been at ABHRC (that's Another Bl**dy HR Conference!) in Sydney this week. 

Some good speakers with some great stories from around the Asia-Pac region, and some clever and interesting people to chat with between times from a host of countries and industries. 

The Big Topic of many of our conversations around the break out areas and at the cocktail party was the need to banish "HR Speak".

Well, not banish it, but at least only use it when there is no perfectly good words in plain English that can say the same thing.

I then had a fellow delegate boil it down:

Some people speak plain English because there really is nothing of substance that they know about HR.

Others speak in HR speak because they know quite a bit about HR and not very much about anything else.

And then there are those who have mastery of their technical discipline to the point where they know all of the detail, and know why it matters in the big picture, and so can make themselves perfectly understood to any audience.

I wish I had thought of that...