HR Besties: Managing Up
HR BESTIES
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🗓️ 12 March 2025
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Today's agenda:
- Salary suspension
- Cringe corporate speak: fight for it
- Hot topic: all about managing up - how should HR go about this? What does this mean?
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- Human resources and managing up: how can we influence unapproachable managers?
- Thinking realistically is a must for HR and leaders: doing what you can do to the best of your ability is key
- Best practises for HR when providing feedback to toxic leaders and out of touch management
- Focus on the relationships
- Questions/Comments
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| 0:00.0 | So in my entire 20-year career, I have only been mad at work four times. |
| 0:14.3 | Like I can count them. |
| 0:15.5 | They're in my mems. |
| 0:16.5 | I could see those exact moments. |
| 0:20.0 | Because, you know, I'm actually a pretty chill person, for the most part. You are like, yeah, I guess, you know. But I'm pretty laid back. And in the workplace, super professional. You know, I like to have a good time. But I don't get very upset, right? That's why I'm probably good at this job. I'm like, okay, let's tackle this issue, right? I don't do, |
| 0:38.9 | you know, I don't go crazy like my hair's on fire or anything, but there's been four times. |
| 0:43.4 | I've shared a couple of those with you all already, like that one bus thrower under her. |
| 0:48.4 | Oh, yeah. That engineering leader who hid his stepchild under his desk for the workday because he didn't |
| 0:55.3 | have child care and then I ran after him in the parking lot like screaming like I lost my cool |
| 1:00.5 | because you know children and safety and all of that but there's two other times I haven't shared |
| 1:05.1 | with you all where I got really mad and I'm talking like angry at work for some people that's their |
| 1:10.5 | identity and that's their brand at |
| 1:12.4 | work, right? Not me. But it was an ops leader. Okay. I was dealing with a partnering with, |
| 1:19.0 | strategically partnering with, I say dealing, but strategically partnering with an operations leader. |
| 1:24.8 | And I was the HR leader for that organization and that business |
| 1:30.8 | and that site. And it was a, it was an acquisition into a huge Fortune 10 organization. |
| 1:37.9 | And I'm sitting in my office one day and another coworker, colleague of mine comes in and |
| 1:42.8 | they're like, hey, who should I go to while |
| 1:45.2 | make up a name? Mark is out. And I was like, Mark's out. What do you mean? Is Mark okay? Like, |
| 1:51.7 | Mark's on vacation? Like, what do you mean? Who do you go to while Mark's out, right? And he's like, |
| 1:56.6 | yeah, well, I mean, Mark is suspended. So who do I go to? |
| 2:01.6 | I was like, Mark, the salaried director has been suspended. |
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