Most annoying work phrases
Best-selling author and strategist, Bernard Marr, has provided a list of phrases most likely to make you want to scream when you hear them come out the mouths of your work colleagues.
“I reckon every office or workplace has one of those people that are just full of jargon-ridden management drivel,” Marr said.
Are you surrounded by people who annoyingly can’t get enough of the management gobbledygook and who utter one jargon buzzword after another?
Are your meetings buzzing with so much management lingo that you find it hard to get to the real meaning of what is being said?
“The problem I have with these phrases is that they sound so pretentious and often are counter-productive because they irritate people so much and deflect from the real meaning.”
These are Marr’s top 30 most irritating jargon phrases used at work:
- Going forward
- Drill-down
- End of play
- Touch base
- It’s on my radar
- No brainer
- Best of breed
- Low hanging fruit
- Reach out
- Dive deeper
- Think outside the box
- Positive momentum
- On my plate
- At the end of the day
- Run the numbers
- Touch points
- Keep your eye on the ball
- Back to the drawing board
- Get the ball rolling
- Bang for your buck
- Close the deal
- When the rubber hits the road
- Shift paradigm
- Move the needle
- Game-changing
- Move the goal post
- Value added
- Win-win
- Across the piece
- All hands on deck
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