HR Besties: Why HR is Needed with Matt Taylor, President of Guardian HR
HR BESTIES
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🗓️ 7 May 2025
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Today's agenda:
- Awkward and lecturing CFO emails
- Cringe corporate speak: per my email
- Hot topic: the importance of HR with Matt Taylor, President of Guardian HR: a leader's perspective on why the function of HR is vital in an organization and the future of HR
- Employers need to be proactive in maintaining working relationships with employees: HR can help with effective employee and employer communication
- What is the role of HR today? What skills will HR professionals need in the future?
- Utilizing the time of HR teams properly
- Attracting and retaining top talent should be a priority in maintaining an organization's steady growth
- AI and HR
- Burnout and setting boundaries as a member of HR
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| 0:00.0 | Okay, picture this. It's a regular Monday, and I open my inbox, and I have, you know, a bunch of messages, no big deal. |
| 0:14.2 | But I see yet another long-winded, awkwardly written, cringy AF email from our CFO. |
| 0:25.6 | And it starts with some sort of random personal anecdote. |
| 0:29.6 | And then it awkwardly transitions into a somber moment about hurricanes or tornadoes or |
| 0:35.6 | some sort of weather. |
| 0:37.1 | And without warning, it launches in to a |
| 0:39.7 | lecture about work. And it could be a lecture on anything that a CEO would lecture on. My first thought |
| 0:46.4 | is I'm like, okay, I hate these. Why do I keep receiving them? But then I'm thinking, okay, maybe it's |
| 0:51.3 | just me that hates these. And so I reach out to a few of my work besties and I'm thinking, okay, maybe it's just me that hates these. And so I reach out to a few of my |
| 0:56.8 | work besties and I'm like, hey, thoughts on the CFO emails. Because now we've received a couple of |
| 1:02.4 | them and they irk the fuck out of me. And I'm already getting messages. Like, did you see this |
| 1:08.8 | email today? Did you see it? We're teams back and |
| 1:11.2 | forth. We're paying each other like, oh my God, are you serious? Another one? Why has no one stopped |
| 1:16.2 | this? And it was that chat from my work, Bessie. Why has no one stopped this? I was like, |
| 1:22.5 | well, he has to know. You have to tell him, right? But I knew it couldn't come from me. I'm just, you know, little old HR telling the CFO that his cringy emails are stupid. |
| 1:33.8 | So I did the only thing I could do. And I went to the CEO and I told on him. Now, the CEO was aware of the emails, but he had not been reading them. |
| 1:45.7 | He just kind of skimmed over them. |
| 1:47.5 | And he didn't realize how cringy and off-putting they were to the staff. |
| 1:51.7 | So he ended up listening to me, and he spoke to our CFO, and he put an end to the cringy, awkward, lecturing CFO emails. |
| 2:03.0 | See, HR can be your friend sometimes at work. |
| 2:07.4 | Were the emails like personal story, let me tell you about my times with my family, |
| 2:11.9 | my very specific details, maybe a vacation house or something, |
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