I'm always confused as to why people can't cope with new words, such as "onboarding". It's a good word, easily understood and fills a gap where there was previously no single word to cover the process.
In English - introduce.
Empower your staff and let them lead,
In English - give them responsibilities.
if it's something massively off track you are there to lead them and guide them back onto the right track.
In English - correct their mistakes.
Arrange regular team meetings and get everyone to contribute something and engage your staff,
In English - talk to them.
According or Orwell,
Newspeak was created “to diminish the range of thought.”
'Onboarding' does not fill a gap - it creates a new gap - a gap in thinking.
'Onboarding' implies a completed process. The simple English word 'introduce' leads to an open question and a very important question - introduce to what and/or whom? By changing from English into Newspeak, you avoid having to ask that very important question.
The moment you change English into Newspeak, you lose the open question that the honest English word carries with it. Turn it back into English and the obvious and open question returns. Turn
Human Resource into employee and the question 'Employed to do what?' returns.
If an employee feels
empowered, he or she no longer has to ask themselves 'Responsible for what and to whom?'
Engaged is a word we use for a completed action, such as a telephone line or a railway coupling. Turn that back to the English word talk and we must ask "Talk to whom and about what and what did they say?"
Imagine you are running a car dealership and you, being a keen proponent of Newspeak,
engage and
onboard a new
Marketing Executive. Filled with
empowerment, this person books
media marketing presence (advertising) for the inventory of
pre-owned vehicles. After a week of marketing activity, you discover that every single
pre-owned and
pre-loved vehicle is still clogging up your lot.
Had you called this useless idiot a used car salesman, you could have saved yourself a great deal of money and he or she might have even sold some bloody cars!
