Guest Posted October 29, 2015 Share Posted October 29, 2015 I'm speaking tomorrow at work on a super boring topic that everybody knows, so I intend to make it as awful as possible by using as much business-speak as I can. I have:-Circle back-High altitude view-Granular-Sausage-making but I know there are hundreds I'm not even considering. Help! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mara Jade Skywalker Posted October 29, 2015 Share Posted October 29, 2015 - Synergy- Pound the pavement- Reach out / touch base Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Good God a Bear Posted October 29, 2015 Share Posted October 29, 2015 - Buy-in- Empower- Core values- Best practice- Synergize Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ms. Spam Posted October 29, 2015 Share Posted October 29, 2015 alignment/aligning with corporate goals to be a fortune 500 company. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monkeygirl Posted October 29, 2015 Share Posted October 29, 2015 reach out to everyone. reach out a LOT.super-serve your coremove forward with a game-changertake advantage of low-hanging fruit with value-added marketabilitydon't feed anyone else's monkeythink outside the box to empower the fringethen touch base about it offline Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pavonis Posted October 29, 2015 Share Posted October 29, 2015 I'm speaking tomorrow at work on a super boring topic that everybody knows, so I intend to make it as awful as possible by using as much business-speak as I can. That doesn't seem like a good idea. Shouldn't you try to make it as interesting as possible, not as awful as possible? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted October 29, 2015 Share Posted October 29, 2015 Know your audience. By making it horrible, it'll be interesting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Destiny Skywalker Posted October 29, 2015 Share Posted October 29, 2015 Lean in, dammit! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted October 29, 2015 Share Posted October 29, 2015 Am I allowed to use lean in? I don't have girl parts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryn Posted October 29, 2015 Share Posted October 29, 2015 "Synergy" / "synergies" (Mentioned in Walgreens' CEO's statement buying Rite-Aid.) "Cascade" and "pulse," regarding passing along information. "Cascade this to your team." "This information will be pulsed to staff over several weeks.: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brett Posted October 29, 2015 Share Posted October 29, 2015 exploit your core competencies Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cerina Posted October 29, 2015 Share Posted October 29, 2015 Don't forget to give 110% while you leverage your best practices and create value-added scalable systems when you take it to the next level. And make sure they understand that while you may be out of pocket, you plan to hit the ground running upon your return. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Destiny Skywalker Posted October 29, 2015 Share Posted October 29, 2015 Am I allowed to use lean in? I don't have girl parts.You can force the wimmin to lean in. They need to, you're just empowering them by making choices for them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Domina Crystalli Posted October 30, 2015 Share Posted October 30, 2015 If it were me, I'd start by saying "showtime, Synergy," which is the only way the word "synergy" should ever be used. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pong Messiah Posted October 30, 2015 Share Posted October 30, 2015 Sorry, looks like the good ones have all been covered, Fozzdo! - Core valuesUgh, that is the one I hate most. As if our company is the only one with "honor and integrity;" as if of our managers actually have any themselves. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted October 30, 2015 Share Posted October 30, 2015 Our managers are fairly honest and have integrity. Now, the decisions made don't always line up with reality, but they don't try to hide anything and they stay consistent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pong Messiah Posted October 30, 2015 Share Posted October 30, 2015 You probably work with grownups who don't steal and have specialized skills? My experience with the term "core values" are those utterly meaningless mantras repeated in service industry jobs by regional managers who pop by twice a year for mandatory pep talks/threat sessions. Oh? Those words on the poster? Yeah, we don't ever look at those unless you're here. And the manager you just had lead us in the pledge of those magic words? He's sleeping with two underlings, fakes liquor inventory reports, and has been known to pocket a cash transaction here or there when rent looms near :-D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted October 30, 2015 Share Posted October 30, 2015 Oh, no matter what they're stupid words. I don't think it's possible for a large company to have "values," because that entirely depends on the team and manager. And, yes, I do work with adults who have specialized skills. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucas1138 Posted October 30, 2015 Share Posted October 30, 2015 "Cascade" and "pulse," regarding passing along information. "Cascade this to your team." "This information will be pulsed to staff over several weeks.:I had coherent thoughts to add, but now I'm just burning with a white hot rage for some reason. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NumberSix Posted October 30, 2015 Share Posted October 30, 2015 "leverage" and "impact" as verbs"going forward"""work smarter, not harder" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth Ender Posted October 30, 2015 Share Posted October 30, 2015 platforming Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted October 30, 2015 Share Posted October 30, 2015 ""work smarter, not harder"If Scrooge McDuck said it, it can't be annoying. That's like Newton's 17th law. That's science. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DANA-kin Skywalker Posted October 31, 2015 Share Posted October 31, 2015 "touch base" is the most annoying to me because it is so overused. Whenever I hear it, I assume the speaker is unimaginative and couldn't come up with anything else to say. "pound the pavement" temporarily distracts me because it makes me think of pounding another word that begins with P. Someone once said to me "worker smarter not harder" when I was helping her move her heavy paper supplies which were in my workspace, which was HER responsibility and not mine at all. she also barely knew me, and was not smarter than me... so I feel she had no right to say it. Now when I hear that one I think of her and get annoyed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Burt Posted October 31, 2015 Share Posted October 31, 2015 I'll mail you a dollar if you can work "reacharound" into your presentation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Destiny Skywalker Posted October 31, 2015 Share Posted October 31, 2015 I admittedly use "work smarter not harder" all the time because I work with some supposedly really smart people who get nothing accomplished on a daily basis because they make their job so much harder than it needs to be. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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