#Leadership : Please Stop Saying These 25 Ridiculous Phrases At Work…These Phrases are Spicy & they Make you Feel Clever (Low Hanging Fruit is a crutch of mine), but They also Annoy the Hell Out of People.

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Stop It!  Listen Ray, I don’t have the bandwidth for it with everything that’s on my plate, but ping me anyway because at the end of the day it’s on my radar and I don’t want to be thrown under the bus because I didn’t circle back around on this no-brainer.

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At first, euphemisms surfaced in the workplace to help people deal with touchy subjects that were difficult to talk about. Before long, they morphed into corporate buzzwords that expanded and took over our vocabulary until our everyday conversations started sounding like they’re taking place on another planet:

Listen Ray, I don’t have the bandwidth for it with everything that’s on my plate, but ping me anyway because at the end of the day it’s on my radar and I don’t want to be thrown under the bus because I didn’t circle back around on this no-brainer.

I understand the temptation. These phrases are spicy and they make you feel clever (low hanging fruit is a crutch of mine), but they also annoy the hell out of people.

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If you think that you can use these phrases without consequence, you’re kidding yourself. Just pay close attention to how other people react to your using them, and you’ll see that these phrases don’t cast you in a favorable light.

After all, TalentSmart has tested the emotional intelligence of more than a million people and one of the biggest need areas for most people is social awareness. Most of us are so focused on what we’re saying and what we’re going to say next that we lose sight of how our words affect other people.

So give this list a read, think of how often you use some of these words and see if you can catch yourself before you use them again.

Have some fun with it, because at the end of the day if you don’t hit the ground running you can always go back to the drawing board and get the ball rolling…

  1. Hit the ground running
  2. Get the ball rolling
  3. Low hanging fruit
  4. Thrown under the bus
  5. Think outside the box
  6. Let’s touch base
  7. Get my manager’s blessing
  8. It’s on my radar
  9. Ping me
  10. I don’t have the bandwidth
  11. No brainer
  12. Par for the course
  13. Bang for your buck
  14. Synergy
  15. Move the goal post
  16. Apples to apples
  17. Win-win
  18. Circle back around
  19. All hands on deck
  20. Take this offline
  21. Drill-down
  22. Elephant in the room
  23. On my plate
  24. At the end of the day
  25. Back to the drawing board

What phrases are your pet peeves? Please share them in the comments section below.

It’ll also be fun to read the ridiculous sentences you can come up with using words from the list above (write them in the comments). I’ll send an autographed copy of my book,Emotional Intelligence 2.0, to whoever comes up with the phrase that makes me laugh the hardest.

Because, after all, I learn just as much from you as you do from me.

 

Forbes.com | July 28, 2015 | Travis Bradberry