Business Speak 101

This main article that this post refers to, was originally published on bbc.co.uk  a couple of years ago and I thought I'd share it with you today.

You've probably heard someone in the workplace (or in the public eye) use some of the phrases or words in the article. I've definitely heard quite a few, and mainly from the same group of senior management suits, so you might want to fetch your pen and paper and make a list of the ones you will likely be adopting?!

Alternatively, you could just lose the ambiguity and speak proper English, that will be understood by all because of its simplicity!

I've listed below the ones I found really amusing. You can click here to read the complete article, as well as the context in which some of the phrases can be used (if you so desire). Enjoy!

Do share, if you know of any other grand, verbose and totally confusing terms!

going forward

idea showers (a replacement for brain storming(!))

product evangelist

platform atheists

incentivise

touch base offline

loop back

holistic, cradle-to-grave approach

got you in my radar

challenges (not problems)
low hanging fruit

looking under the bonnet

pre-prepare / pre-plan

forward planning

conversate (huh?)

think outside the box

sprinkling the magic along the way

in this space

from the get-go

going forward

360-degree thinking

feed through the pipeline

ducks in a row

fingers down the throat

my door is open on this issue

close of play

give it 110%

not enough bandwidth

out of the loop

cascading

living the values

blue-sky thinking

strategic staircase

the next level drill-down

granularity

high altitude view

silos

synergies