50 Workplace Phrases We Love to Hate
If you dislike workplace jargon but find yourself using it anyways, you’re not alone.
A recent survey by American Express found that 88% of respondents said they use jargon without understanding it, and 64% reported using words and terms like this “multiple times” weekly.
Curious, I polled my LinkedIN network about the words or phrases they wish they could eliminate from the workplace. Based on their responses, here is the 2017 Workplace Jargon blacklist:
- Line of sight
- Core competencies
- Drinking the kool-aid
- Move the needle
- Good to great
- Follow through
- Happy path
- Don’t recreate the wheel
- Streamline the process
- Touch base offline
- Paradigm shift
- Drilling down
- Hit the ground running
- Boil the ocean
- Mitigate the risk
- At the end of the day
- Let me reach out to you
- Let’s circle back on that
- Ducks in a row
- Blue sky thinking
- Deeper dive
- Scale/scalable
- Bleeding edge
- Let’s parking lot that
- Teachable moment
- Eye on the prize
- Sanity check
- Plan your work, work your plan
- Checkup from the neck up
- As of yesterday
- Create shared understanding
- Create middle ground
- Revenue reciprocation
- Safeguard business interests
- Temperature check
- Let’s recalibrate
- Lean operation
- Moving forward
- Business as usual
- It is what it is
- Slow down to speed up
- Bubble up
- Close the loop
- Pain point
- Touch base
- Happy medium
- Ping me
- Fluid situation
- Swim lanes
- Tiger teams