Big data indicates there is a link between web based parenting and ladies employment sustainability. Thus, our cunning CEO, Stan, firmly supports working mom's rights and work work work work life balance, based on web enabled tools. By the way. Stan loves his family. He told me he has 3 or 4 kids. "I'll count them next time I'm home".
Stan texted me today asking me to put together a comprehensive plan in a timely fashion linking working motherhood and work work work life balance into a "coherent offering". Stan added, "you are the best bull-shitter alive, Gloria".
Here is what I sent out to all our staff by text, Whatsapp and Skype and an email.
"In the
framework of our HR-wow-plan , the HR organization met for
45 minute on-sight to put together the following milestones to
enhance working mothers' rights enabling a better work work work life balance.
1) A 90 second webinar on "putting work back into work-life balance". The webinar stresses the virtue of hard work. The webinar will be pumped over the loud-speaker at lunch time.
2) A new course, Parenting via Spouse
Empowerment. To be delivered by a Caucasian mother with a British accent. Small charge of 25 Euro to be deducted from next month's salary.
To decline, call the number at the bottom of this message, followed by the pound key.
3) Compulsory (elective) purchase of my new book at a subsidized price: "Becoming a Parent at 55 Helps Achieve Stretch Goals"
A sound plan. But, Gloria (if I may be so familiar) never forget that the road to hell is paved with good intentions, there's many a slip between the cup and the lip, and - of course - Nixon's Law: "if two wrongs don't make a right, try three."
ReplyDelete"Understanding, commitment and follow through, that's what we need", as I always say.
First, you need to insist on buy-in.
Second, to separate people from the problem, you will need to establish objective measures of performance. You get what you measure.
Finally, you need to establish effective management controls: having set targets, monitor performance, identify variances and take remedial actions.
Never forget that damned human factor out there; it can be a wily little rascal.
Mon cher Geoffrey, (that's French)
DeleteFor heavens sake lets be practical.
By 2 morrow Stan will have smsed me 4 new projects. I am too senior to be involved in the niceties of follow thru. For that I have an assistant, Miss Cynthia Ax.
Thanks for your input.
Glo
J'adore your way of dealing with things.
DeleteChapeau! from Morocco
شكرا
DeleteGloria