Message-ID: <16665781.1075863670309.JavaMail.evans@thyme> Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2000 04:39:00 -0700 (PDT) From: brenda.herod@enron.com To: lisa.csikos@enron.com, daren.farmer@enron.com, mary.smith@enron.com, rita.wynne@enron.com, steve.venturatos@enron.com, pat.clynes@enron.com, michael.eiben@enron.com Subject: Re: PRC Meeting Agenda Recap Cc: hector.mcloughlin@enron.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Bcc: hector.mcloughlin@enron.com X-From: Brenda F Herod X-To: Lisa Csikos, Daren J Farmer, Mary M Smith, Rita Wynne, Steve Venturatos, Pat Clynes, Michael Eiben X-cc: Hector McLoughlin X-bcc: X-Folder: \Darren_Farmer_Dec2000\Notes Folders\All documents X-Origin: Farmer-D X-FileName: dfarmer.nsf To clarify the discussion below: I will not be discussing the promotion candidates with Sally prior to her PRC meeting on 6/19/00. As a reminder, our PRC meeting will be held on Tuesday, 6/13 in EB37C1, beginning @ 12:00 Noon. Lunch will be served, and Yvette has drinks and snacks throughout the day. Our goal will be NOT to have dinner, but if necessary, we will. I suggest each of you to make arrangements to stay as late as needed to ensure we reach a quality work product. Our agenda: Review of ground rules and responsibilities of the committee. Each of you will provide a general business assessment of your team. HR challenges should be identified along with needed skill sets, gap analysis and succession planning. The template below should be used for the format. I am not interested in discussing the business goals, but you probably need to think through these in order to discuss the assessments that we will want to discuss as a group. Review and discussion of exempt employees. Each will be categorized into the six descriptors used in the feedback process. I am expecting each of you to have a listing of accomplishments from your employees along with factual feedback and observations which will allow you to place your employees into appropriate categories. I would like to stress that the data to sustantiate the performance descriptor should be factual and documented. The focus of employee discussions must be on each employee's individual contribution towards accomplishing our business goals. We must safeguard our discussions from "he said, she said" periferal distractors, and focus on the work product. Promotion candidates discussion. Once again, the PRC process is a valued process at Enron. Each of you have been through it, so you understand the importance of confidentiality. Additionally, the Committee will be required to reach an unanimous vote. Please come to the meeting with your "Enron" hat on - not your individual group hat. Our people are critical to our business. Therefore, it is important for us to be honest when evaluating our staff. We must identify our stengths and weaknesses, and work towards strengthening our people to ensure the very best business service we can provide. What this means is that we should provide our employees with the very best constructive feedback possible. In some cases, you may be providing a tough message, but it is our responsibility and obligation to ensure that each employee fully understands expectations, where they are on point and where they are NOT on point of meeting these expectations so that they can have the next six months to build needed skill sets and/or correct behaviors. This is your obligation as their immediate supervisor. If you have any questions, concerns or issues you would like to talk about prior to the meeting on Tuesday, please contact me or Hector. In advance, I appreciate your time, energy and professionalism in this process. ---------------------- Forwarded by Brenda F Herod/HOU/ECT on 06/09/2000 10:56 AM --------------------------- Enron North America Corp. From: Brenda F Herod 06/05/2000 08:45 AM To: Lisa Csikos/HOU/ECT@ECT, Daren J Farmer/HOU/ECT@ECT, Mary M Smith/HOU/ECT@ECT, Rita Wynne/HOU/ECT@ECT, Steve Venturatos/HOU/ECT@ECT, Pat Clynes/Corp/Enron@ENRON, Michael Eiben/HOU/ECT@ECT cc: Subject: Re: PRC Meeting Agenda Recap FYI. THe template to be used in our PRC process is below. I am still trying to get clarification around the promotion discussion. I will let you all know. ---------------------- Forwarded by Brenda F Herod/HOU/ECT on 06/05/2000 08:43 AM --------------------------- Enron North America Corp. From: Hector McLoughlin 06/02/2000 05:28 PM To: Brenda F Herod/HOU/ECT@ECT cc: Subject: Re: PRC Meeting Agenda Recap The accomplishments by 6/19 is for Directors and above - to Sally. Individual groups under Sally will probably set their deadlines PRIOR to the smaller PRC's. That is correct. I did not understand that Promotions are to be discussed prior to the meeting with Sally Our notes indicate that Sally wanted some prior discussions on this subject. nor did I understand that the employee had to be in their role for 1 year. Our notes indicate that this would be the general rule of thumb. I thought the Promotion discussion would be an agenda item of PRC. We believe that discussion of promotions will also occur at the PRC. Additionally, I understood the Mid-Year promotion listing would not be as extensive as year-end, maintaining the year-end as the primary promotion time. We understood the same. From: Brenda F Herod @ ECT 05/31/2000 07:37 PM To: Hector McLoughlin/Corp/Enron@Enron cc: Sally Beck/HOU/ECT@ECT, Kristin Albrecht/HOU/ECT@ECT, Sheila Glover/HOU/ECT@ECT, Michael E Moscoso/HOU/ECT@ECT, Eugenio Perez/HOU/ECT@ECT, Scott Pleus/Enron Communications@Enron Communications, Brent A Price/HOU/ECT@ECT, Susan Harrison/HOU/ECT@ECT, Stephen P Schwarz/HOU/ECT@ECT, Mary Solmonson/HOU/ECT@ECT, Sheri Thomas/HOU/ECT@ECT, Robert Superty/HOU/ECT@ECT, Peggy Hedstrom/CAL/ECT@ECT, Shona Wilson/NA/Enron@Enron, Steve Jackson/HOU/ECT@ECT, Jefferson D Sorenson/HOU/ECT@ECT, Norma Villarreal/HOU/ECT@ECT Subject: Re: PRC Meeting Agenda Recap I think I'm unclear on some points. The accomplishments by 6/19 is for Directors and above - to Sally. Individual groups under Sally will probably set their deadlines PRIOR to the smaller PRC's. I did not understand that Promotions are to be discussed prior to the meeting with Sally nor did I understand that the employee had to be in their role for 1 year. I thought the Promotion discussion would be an agenda item of PRC. Additionally, I understood the Mid-Year promotion listing would not be as extensive as year-end, maintaining the year-end as the primary promotion time. Can you clarify? Thanks. Enron North America Corp. From: Hector McLoughlin 05/31/2000 06:07 PM To: Sally Beck/HOU/ECT@ECT, Kristin Albrecht/HOU/ECT@ECT, Sheila Glover/HOU/ECT@ECT, Brenda F Herod/HOU/ECT@ECT, Michael E Moscoso/HOU/ECT@ECT, Eugenio Perez/HOU/ECT@ECT, Scott Pleus/Enron Communications@Enron Communications, Brent A Price/HOU/ECT, Susan Harrison/HOU/ECT@ECT, Stephen P Schwarz/HOU/ECT@ECT, Mary Solmonson/HOU/ECT@ECT, Sheri Thomas/HOU/ECT@ECT, Robert Superty/HOU/ECT@ECT, Peggy Hedstrom/CAL/ECT@ECT, Shona Wilson/NA/Enron@Enron, Steve Jackson/HOU/ECT@ECT, Jefferson D Sorenson/HOU/ECT@ECT cc: Norma Villarreal/HOU/ECT@ECT Subject: PRC Meeting Agenda Recap Please distribute the recap of the meeting to your managers. Thanks, hgm