It would be a good thing if the Board and current or expected interim ED loosened up confidentiality on the employees.
It helps internal morale and external confidence in reforms.
George William Herbert Sent from my iPhone
On Feb 26, 2016, at 7:30 PM, Oliver Keyes ironholds@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Feb 26, 2016 at 8:57 PM, Pine W wiki.pine@gmail.com wrote: I admit to being surprised by the depth of the division between the ED and staff that we are hearing about. Thanks to the Signpost and internal leaks we in the community knew about the low marks in the staff survey, but I guess I didn't appreciate that the situation involved more than widespread professional disagreement and had reached such emotional depth for at least some staff.
I would like to ask Brion, who seems to be acting as the de facto VP of HR, if he could ask people if they are willing to have their *anonymized* comments and notes be published. I think that these would be helpful to inform the discussions about the future.
No, he's not. Don't get me wrong, Brion's help is TREMENDOUSLY valuable and appreciated. But please recognise that you only see things from the outside. Your understanding of what is going on, absent internal discussions, is likely to be somewhat distorted. Brion is one of the more preeminent volunteers for emotional support but he is not acting without HR also acting.
I fully understand that people may feel comfortable venting and connecting about this situation in private. I am trying to respect that private space while also encouraging a flow of information that I hope will be beneficial for WMF in the rebuilding phase.
The WMF's rebuilding is ultimately WMF-centric.
There are elements with movement-wide components; reform of the board of trustees, which is also supported by a lot of staff, is a good example. But much of it is internal, private, and only fully understood with an NDA. It's why so many people have been able to gut-punch employees over the last few months: because there are a lot of things where, even anonymised, we cannot say anything.
Given that I would prefer not to risk compromising the healing with publicly-shared transcripts, even anonymised ones. This is not to say that public feedback and review and transparency isn't welcome and needed: it is. Merely that this should not come from the commentary of individual meetings.
Brion, thank you very much for taking on this role as staff facilitator.
If a professional facilitator would help as well, I'd say to go for it.
We already have one, and have for months.
Pine _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe