Glossary entry (derived from question below)
anglais term or phrase:
hold
français translation:
sont circonscrites à ceux qui ont du talent
anglais term
France
Native in: français (Variant: Standard-France)
Works in: anglais vers français, espagnol vers français
hold
Managers will not communicate neither on the positions within the 9-box grid nor tell “talents” they are flagged as such.
The feedback will also serve to share with the employee how he / she demonstrates current and future CERBA values.
Feedback and communication are held as close as possible to talents.The feedback must be effective and constructive: [...]
Comment comprenez-vous "are held as close as possible to" ?
| 4 | sont circonscrites à ceux qui ont du talent |
HERBET Abel
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| 2 -1 | se limite à |
Tony M
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Jun 1, 2017 08:10: HERBET Abel changed "Edited KOG entry" from "<a href="/profile/1291630">EA Traduction's</a> old entry - "hold"" to ""sont circonscrites à ceux qui ont du talent""
Jun 1, 2017 08:10: HERBET Abel changed "Edited KOG entry" from "<a href="/profile/1595450">HERBET Abel's</a> old entry - "hold"" to ""sont circonscrites à ceux qui ont du talent""
Jun 1, 2017 08:10: HERBET Abel changed "Edited KOG entry" from "<a href="/profile/1595450">HERBET Abel's</a> old entry - "hold"" to ""sont circonscrites à ceux qui ont du talent""
Jun 1, 2017 08:10: HERBET Abel changed "Edited KOG entry" from "<a href="/profile/1595450">HERBET Abel's</a> old entry - "hold"" to ""sont circonscrites à ceux qui ont du talent""
Jun 1, 2017 08:11: HERBET Abel changed "Edited KOG entry" from "<a href="/profile/1595450">HERBET Abel's</a> old entry - "hold"" to ""sont circonscrites à ceux qui ont du talent""
Jun 1, 2017 08:11: HERBET Abel changed "Edited KOG entry" from "<a href="/profile/1595450">HERBET Abel's</a> old entry - "hold"" to ""sont circonscrites à ceux qui ont du talent""
Proposed translations
Graduate engineer
Native in: français (Variant: Standard-France)
Works in: anglais vers français, français vers anglais
sont circonscrites à ceux qui ont du talent
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Note added at 17 days (2017-06-01 08:09:14 GMT) Post-grading
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Merci
se limite à
As far as I can see, they seem to be saying that 'Feedback and communication' should 'confine themselves to' (only talking about...) — but it is a slightly odd use of 'held to', which could possibly indicate there is more to this than meets the eye.
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Note added at 17 minutes (2017-05-14 17:12:43 GMT)
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In less formal language, we might say "stick to safe topics", and this might be the writer's attempt to render the same idea in slightly more formal language?
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GILLES MEUNIER
: contresens, s'applique à....
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I fear you may be misunderstanding the EN source text; not the verb conbstruction here is really 'hold to', which rarely if ever has the meaning you suggest.
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Discussion
However, in the second occurrence, when talking about the 9-box matrix, I'm not so sure; I do find the EN here ambiguous, even unclear, but my reading (and I see that of Abel too) if that it means that any feedback, communication, comments, etc. should be confined to talking about the 'talents' people possess (or not!) rather than veering off topic and saying "she has blue eyes" or somesuch. That is really the only sense I can find for 'to be held to' here — I did wonder about the idea of 'not revealing information to anyone ouside the group of 'talents' direcly concerned, but that seems to me not very likely, not terribly logical — and frankly, a rather weird interpretation of the verb used here!