Events
How to make HR sound, well… human
Wednesday 2nd December 2009
Neil Taylor
Creative director of The Writer
How do you make HR sound human again. Come along and learn some techniques on how to communicate better using the written word.
People in HR and their departments have some of the hardest, most emotive, and most complicated stuff to communicate to their organisations. Sadly, in many of them, HR is drowning in as much meaningless corporatespeak as the rest of the business. Calling redundancies ‘synergy-related headcount reduction’ doesn’t fool anyone, and just makes you sound weasly.
So how do you make HR sound human again, without being fluffy? Neil will be talking about his experiences working with clients like the BBC, BT, and BA (and that’s just the Bs). And he’ll be sharing some of the techniques The Writer uses to help HR teams communicate better.
Neil Taylor
Neil is creative director of The Writer (www.thewriter.co.uk), the country’s largest language consultancy, where he trains people to be better business writers.
He’s also written a small pile of books: Brilliant Business Writing; The Name of the Beast, about coming up with names for brands; and Search Me: The surprising success of Google.
He pops up to talk about language and business from time to time on Radio 4, CNN, and yes, Saturday Kitchen, as well as in the Guardian. He speaks English with a slight Lancastrian twang, and French with a weird Quebec twang.
Irwin Mitchell Solicitors London are hosting this event in their Holborn offices.
Location: Irwin Mitchell 40 Holborn Viaduct LONDON , EC1N 2PZ
Date and Time: Wednesday 2nd December 2009 12:00 PM
Feedback
Very engaging, energetic, and useful session. I will be taking this back into the workplace.
Submitted by Barry Hoffman, Computacenter plc
Very engaging, great 'taster' to a workshop or more dedicated training session on busines writing skills
Submitted by Elizabeth Moorhead, Deloitte
Great session, thoughtful and engaging. Great to have a session that was so pragmatic
Submitted by Keith Gibbs, RBS
An excellent session, pitched at an engaging level. Thoroughly enjoyable and a topic I'd happily see developed further.
Submitted by Rob Bushnell, IBB Solicitors
Very interesting and although I thought there are limits to his proposition, it was thought provoking and I will definitely try to review how I write in future.
Submitted by Richard Linskell, Speechly Bircham
Excellent
Submitted by ROSEMARY MASHFORD, Alliotts
Really excellent. Was very interesting and made me completely re-think how I write at work. Thank you very much.
Submitted by Amy Steele, Catlin
My first event (as a guest). Very impressed with the level of attendance, quality of the networking conversations and of course an entertaining and informative presentation!
Submitted by Paula Graham, Fujitsu
This was a truly fantastic event. Really inspirational speaker and I'm sure everyone in the room went away challenged to think about what they write and why they write it!
Submitted by Merrill April, Memery Crystal LLP
A very engaging speaker & hugely entertaining talk. It made a refreshing difference from the usual HR seminar! By contrast, I have just attended another lunchtime seminar which, funnily enough, was crammed full of acronyms and HR speak ('D&I' anyone - that's 'diversity and inclusivity',for the uninitiated). I'm still not sure if I can get away with starting a sentence with 'And', but I'll give it a try!
Submitted by Sue Bachorski, Peters & Peters
Really interesting, would have liked more!
Submitted by lindsay baker, stratus technolgies
Excellent presenter. Valuable content. Interesting session. Good networking
Submitted by Sarah Lewis, Appreciating Change
Neil was a very entertaining and informative speaker. The event was very useful in terms of challenging accepted ways of communicating corporate messages, particularly in relation to "HR speak"!
Submitted by Emma Drummond
The event was practical, amusing, engaging and thoroughly worthwhile attending. The speaker was open, transparent, engaging and knowledgeable. This was a very good event, thank you.
Submitted by Philip Gimmack, Wellness Insights Ltd