Kyle Roed: She said Mama loves Jesus
What did that do? Did you just have a feeling? Maybe you
thought I sucked at singing and why am I listening this podcast
and that's okay. Music evokes emotion. What is HR do we are
also supposed to evoke emotion?
But what emotion Do you evoke?
Are you Toby from the office?
Are you oh shit hrs here? What do I do? What did I do wrong?
Side? No, you probably do have a reputational issue. It's time to
Irbil.
Billy Idol for you.
The best musicians are rebels.
So I asked you this, what genre are you trying to play at your
organization? Here's the secret.
There are only really like five chords that you need to play in
order to play most popular music. Just played almost all
music. The difference is how you play those five chords matters.
Are you playing on like this?
Or like this?
So gotta ask yourself this question. Who are you as an
artist, here's an issue. context switching is a problem. If your
organization is asking you to switch from one genre to the
next, every few minutes, you are going to screw something up, you
will get tired. On average, it takes people about 10 minutes to
get back into a productive workflow after being
interrupted, so you might be playing a sweet solo. And then
some drunk asshole says play for Uber. Sidenote, if you are a
musician, you do have to learn how to play Freebird. Or you
will get beat up at the bar. So make sure that you know how to
play Freebird. But the point is, you can't do it all. You can't
play every single genre for everybody. You have to find the
right genre for you. And you have to find the right band
members to play that genre with you, sidenote, always find the
drummer they are the hardest to find. Once you find your band,
now you've got to deal with stage fright. Trying to achieve
social performance is exhausting. But guess what,
that's what HR does every single freaking day. We are onstage
acting. Here's the trick. You can't fake it. You have to be
authentic and you have to be true even when it hurts. If you
are constantly acting over and over and over again, it's
exhausting. You will burn yourself out how many articles
that we read lately about HR fatigue. The problem is human
behavior. When you constantly consider your actions, you screw
up, you have to learn how to play your own music, or people
will tell that you are not playing the genre that you
should shouldn't be playing.
Here's a quote I love. If you tell the truth. You don't have
to remember anything. That's a Mark Twain quote. And that's
what we should all be striving to do. If we are faking it, we
will fail. Eventually, when I started my career, I thought I
had to play everything in C major. Because it's pretty and
it's right and it's like that that corporate headshot with the
shiny photo that everybody wants. But the truth is that I
should be playing a C minor that's just me. That's who I am.
So ask yourself this. How are you doing? Are you playing the
blues on a Sunday? Because that sucks. If you've got the Sunday
scaries if you dread going into work, guess what? You're
probably playing the wrong genre. So do you need a bridge?
A bridge is a contrasting section and music that gets
people to go back to the return to the original material. Is it
time for you to go back to your original material? Ask yourself
that. Here's the thing. We can make a difference in HR. If we
are our authentic selves. Oh by the way, close it out on a
badass power cord. lasting mark.
Rebel