This reads like robot-ey enterprise speak.
No human being speaks to someone else like this in a normal situation. Just say what you mean and stop dancing around silly social games like this.
No human being speaks to someone else like this in a normal situation. Just say what you mean and stop dancing around silly social games like this.
The initial phrase is what you use in verbal communication, if you have a close working relationship. The 'professional' version goes in the email, which you assume is publicly distributed.
Half the reason for mastering it is to avoid coming off as a huge back of dicks by inadvertently sending the wrong message through some polite-seeming offer to help or whatever.
I used to work at a former Nokia company and my PO was Finnish. He would get people upset all the time by simply being too direct, especially with American colleagues.
I get mildly upset when people send me messages like this, because I know that wasn't what was in their head and that's not what they wanted to tell me.
It feels really... I don't know, like you can't even bother to speak to me like we're human beings.
I'd rather someone just talk to me like a normal person than use this corporate buzzword speak. But I was also raised in a family where you'd be told to "stop being an idiot" and then an explanation of why what you're doing was stupid. My mum wasn't one to mince words.
When you encourage people to interpret candor as hostility, you make everyone constantly afraid of offending others. It's hard to build trust and rapport with your coworkers in that environment.
If you can casually tell someone they're acting like an idiot, it's (to me) a sign that you have a level of trust with that person and the ability to empathize/communicate with each other.
If someone comes to you in private and says, "Look man, you're really fucking up.", it hits different than "You might reconsider some of your recent behaviors."
It shows that you are emotionally invested enough to use empathic language, rather than make blasé/meek innuendos to avoid any chance of offending them. The point is "You need to hear this" and not "I want to avoid offending you", which feels more productive to me.
I once sat in a meeting of reps from about a dozen big companies in the agchem industry. They were proposing some kind of cooperative data thing. One guy spent five minutes spouting exactly this sort of enterprise speak, and it all could have been boiled down "what's in it for us?"
A good deal of corporate culture is people just following the patterns they see around them to conform. A good deal of culture change is just proudly, kindly, and confidently demonstrating how to do better - and having epic patience to wait for people to take notice and start following you (which might never happen.)