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Verbalise your ideations.

Overheard in the US this week. I'm on day four of it. My head hurts.

"Socialise our thoughts" was one thrown into a meeting by a sales person, sorry Business Development Manager, last week.

Oh and a lot of people seem to be "reaching out" rather than trying to get in touch these days.

Throw a bit of 'ideation' in there. It's a combination of ideas and creation.

Have you used 'synergies' yet?

Bonus points if you can suggest you reach around a colleague.

A rep once unwittingly got 'tromboning' into a pitch once. Go for that.

That and 'ringfence the unicorn' obviously

We had "overflow of Capacity" the other day....
......we're a little busy... 🙄

I had an interview a few weeks ago for a sales role. I suspect being an engineer my answers along the lines of "don't you just phone them?" didn't quite have the same gravitas as "I'd reach out to the consumers".

Oh and a lot of people seem to be "reaching out" rather than trying to get in touch these days.

Do we still say that?

I must be well out of touch. I'm still "brofisting my dawgs" 😉

perchy[b]panther[/b] - Member

I must be well out of touch. I'm still "brofisting my dawgs"

Cat's surely?

Ideation

I saw this on our intranet the other day, couldn't believe it was a real word.

[url= https://www.google.co.uk/?gws_rd=ssl#q=ideation ]Apparently [/url]it means the formation of ideas or concepts and has been around for ages...

Just used odds and sods.

Silence from the other end. Except for the British ex pat who s****ed....

have just socialised and verbalised.

Cat's surely?

Cats, Dawgs, whatever.

I'm an Equal Opportunities fister.

We had one last and emphasised "double click"..!

Thanks all. Back to boring telecoms jargon now....

Suggestions for any other quinissentially british phrases to silence the yanks anyone? Lets see how many Ourmanintehnorth can get in!

Contrafibularities.

GO!

Our office has a list of the that get ticked off over the course of the day. Use and abuse at your leisure:

??? piece (context, “we’re doing a lot of work on the data migration piece”)
Bayonet the dead
Best in breed
Break through the clutter
Calibrate expectations
Class leading
Close the loop
Customer centric
Disruptive innovation
Elevator pitch
Fulfilment issues
Have a V2V
Herding cats
High order thinking
It is what it is
Just doing my job
Let’s not try and boil the ocean
Leverage
Low hanging fruit
Mission critical
Money maker
Par for the course
Paradigm shift
Quick and dirty
Sometimes you have to shoot the puppy
Synergy
Thought leadership
Value add

You can also generate your own completely fake phrases here:
http://www.acronymfinder.com/buzzgen.asp

up the odds a bit. See how many song titles you can get in.

A few you might try:

"Let's go round again"
"Don't leave me this way"
"yellow submarine"
"Raspberry beret"

Rich.

Sometimes you have to shoot the puppy

How about going with something only a (few) brits would get?

"It is all heading up Garburn Pass"
or
"It's a bit like swimming with Nessie"

See how many song titles you can get in.

Did that in a speaking slot at a conference in Vegas a couple of years ago. Told colleagues I'd be doing so beforehand. Poor things were at the back of the hall in tears by the end!

Elevator pitch

I quite like elevator pitch tbh, it's nice and descriptive, and a real thing not just some newspeak bollocks.

We use "helicopter parenting" a lot at work. It's a really useful term but a part of me dies every time.

Bonus and double word score if you manage to slip then a quick and dirty

Cockwomble

Alas call reached its natural conclusion (I wasn't listening) before I had a chance to fully British it up.

I did have a thought at what the chaps on the other side might have thought when trying to decipher our accents: west indian, yorkshire, laaandaan and me (moderately RP).

hilarious how comically macho some of these terms are!

bayonetting the dead, mission critical, shooting puppies - it's all very Mike from Spaced...

"We are a class leading, customer centric provider who offer best in breed solutions. We don't go after the low hanging fruit or offer quick and dirty solutions, the way we work is a paradigm shift from the usual migration piece. We can break through the clutter and leverage your fulfillment issues, offering thought leadership on your mission critical systems. But, before I give you my elevator pitch, lets have a further V2V and I can explain our value add."

^Genius^

lunge - Member

lets have a further V2V

"What a coincidence! That's my favourite sort of porn too! We should definitely do business together"

Northwind, would you like me to show you my money maker? If so, you realise it will be a quick dirty solution?

Just used odds and sods.

Oh and a lot of people seem to be "reaching out" rather than trying to get in touch these days.

You could try a reach around instead?

It's very disruptive.

Are you using a cascadation matrix?

let's stop and count our bullets (surely a winner in the states)

shrink the denominator

pebbledashing the bowl

Most businesses are on the road to BI nirvana...

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lunge,

are you my bid writer..? 😆

I heard 'It's like trying to heard geckos' the other day.

A nice variation if nothing else.

'Re-inventing' seems to be à la mode right now. Is it just me or is it a self-contained paradox? You either invent something (i.e. create something new) or adapt something. How can you re-invent something?

How can you re-invent something?

You need to orbificate the delta.

My OH just told me that she's off on business in July but I should know that already as she had put a 'placemat' in the diary. I had no words...

Ah, the 'ol 'coaster in the calendar'

In honour of this thread, the following exchange has just taken place in our office, very much tongue in cheek you understand (yes, it's too hot to do any real work...):

"Thanks for responding, today is about us putting our heads together, thinking bigger picture and everyone stepping up to the plate. if we can hit the ground running by thinking outside the box we can 360 that elephant in the room. strategically some blue sky thinking will help us land this as we are all playing to position here and at the end of the day, no one should be on the bus who doesn't want to be on the bus."

And in reply

"Your response is par for the course. I think you need to understand that it is vital we ring-fence the unicorn and offer some disruptive innovation here. There is clear a pain point in your business and unless we drill down, peel back the onion and recalibrate expectations we’re going to end up shooting the puppy. You are on the cusp of a dot-bomb deep dive and no amount of pick and shovel work will prevent the imminent paralysis by analysis. Let put together a holistic road map and get it implemented on the bleeding edge."

Does this get brought up all the time? I haven't been around these parts for a strong minute.

Have just shared some of these examples with about 100 American colleagues in the room.

Thank you, STW!

There was much laughing. Some of it a bit nervous, along the lines of "oh crap. We really do sound like that!"

It seems that in every industry I have ever worked in, there are too many of these incidents:
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In my team meetings I generally end up blurting out phrases such as "you can't reason with stupid" and "you can't polish a turd" a lot. As well as numerous other minor sweary rants.

I'm often pulled up on the tone of my communication with colleagues, but told as if it's a surprise to me that I've spoken to someone like a piece of shit, they're always shocked when I acknowledge I talk like that, and have done so to emphasise my point.

Core - similar experiences myself in a past job. People don't appear to like when you speak about their failings openly, and accept your own.