You have been jargoned, my friend

You're worried about performance levels, so you sound it out to HR. Then, for days and days, you talk KRAs, KPIs, scorecards, blah blah……JD……alignment……mission, vision……more blah……

Somehow you get past setting objectives — by now you've debated every alphabet and the ways they can be arranged: KRA, KPA, KPI, KSI, DCR, DSR……and finally it goes to supervisors for, ahhhmmm, cascading. Yeah, like falling dominoes. HR gives a visual demo too.

Meanwhile, in the pantry, the word is that you're building some secret weapon with HR and annihilation is around the corner. The workplace is abuzz with resume-writing and consultant-calling.

The year ends. The much-theorized jargon never sank down the levels. Life in the corridors is as usual. You feel a bit wiser, having tied a few new jargons along the way.

And HR? Wasn't too happy with your lack of professional insight, and is starting a brand-new season with yet another entrepreneur — having picked up a few fresh jargons herself. History will repeat itself. Another year, another place.

You, my friend, will take some time to recover from last year's intellectual assault. You've been jargoned. Only the year-end P&L will bring you back to business.

Here's the thing, and it's only gotten truer in the AI era: performance isn't a vocabulary problem, it's a clarity problem. Strip the jargon. Set goals people understand, run real reviews, and act on what you find. That's it. plugHR does exactly that — the plain way, not the jargoned way. Talk to plugHR.

Originally published on the plugHR blog.