I sat in on a business meeting yesterday where a department head was giving a report on what his team had been up to during the past year. The meeting’s focus was team building and information. His intention was to share changes and build confidence in his team so that other departments would have more confidence in the team. When he was done with his 20 minutes, the only thing I was confident of was that I’d never want anything to do with that team.
In 20 minutes, he managed to insult the team 8 times (and insult 2 other departments once each). That’s one insult every 2.5 minutes. The GarbageFactor™ in full force!
These were so bad, I had to write them down. Ready for the groaners?
Regarding the mission statement “I’m not saying we’re actually doing these things.”
“We’ve had some challenges there, we’ve made some mistakes, but we’re improving.”
“We weren’t hired to be creative.” (The teams work involves about 70% creativity)
“We’re not smart enough to do this by ourselves.”
“We weren’t doing our job in the past.”
“We have to get better at it.”
“We’re struggling with quarterly updates.”
We’re going to continue to make mistakes.”
He then referred to one department as “obstacles to communicating with clients” and another department as “the big Gorilla.”
You can’t make this Garbage up!
