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Dr Nia D Thomas's avatar

Agree. You have to learn to sit on your hands and listen for those first 90 days

I once worked with a HR exec who wrote the organisation’s EDI policy in their first 6 weeks. It was very suspicious. Then we discovered they’d written the same thing in their previous role…..

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Rachael Williams's avatar

Busted! Thanks Nia.

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Dr Nia D Thomas's avatar

They are so proud of having written it in 6 weeks.... Totally missed the point of being in the C-Suite..... They were definitely from the old 'HR is about sacking people' school of thought......

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