Don't 'circle back' to this common business jargon.
“Jargon can be annoying when it’s overused to the point where the words no longer hold meaning,” said career coach“Take these phrases, for example: ‘Mission-critical,’ ’socialize, ‘disruptive,’ ‘circle back,’ ’synergy, ‘touch base,’” Genduso noted. “They’re very subjective as well. What’s ‘disruptive’ for one leader or one industry may be ‘old-school’ for another.“That’s why it helps to learn which jargony phrases are particularly off-putting — and why.
Brown said that acronyms can be profession-specific, and the problem happens when you assume your colleague knows what you’re saying. Maybe if you’re a business grad, you’ll know thatmeans “discounted cash flow,” but it will be completely baffling to a colleague outside of that field. And maybe if you’re on the marketing team, you’ll know that WOM means “word of mouth,” but you may have to clarify for your engineering team.
Genduso noted that idioms like “move the needle,” “out of pocket,” “piggyback,” “low-hanging fruit” and “table this conversation” can be “extremely confusing to non-native language speakers because the literal definitions don’t always make sense.“, a career coach who has worked in human resources, said she finds herself most annoyed by sports-related jargon, like “punt it over,” “it’s a home run,” “who’s on the bench” and “over the finish line.
Mikayla Jordan for Textio. “Imagine a job description including ‘You’ll quarterback projects from start to finish.’ If the candidate isn’t familiar with American football, they may not understand what’s expected and fear they won’t fit in.”“When a workplace language contains a certain theme, like sports, I would advise an employee to call it out and identify it while also indicating the impact,” Karachristos said. “Something like, ‘I notice we use a lot of sports jargon here.
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