Stop telling your co-workers to ‘think outside the box’

New York Post ^ | April 25, 2018 | SWNS

[sparklite2]

Top 40 most cringe-worthy phrases used at the office

1. Give 110 percent
2. Think outside the box
3. Hammer it out
4. Heavy lifting
5. Throw them under the bus
6. Don’t count your chickens before they’ve hatched
7. Pushing the envelope
8. Let the cat out of the bag
9. Let’s circle back
10. Win-win situation
11. Blue-sky thinking
12. Boil the ocean
13. Synergy
14. Low-hanging fruit
15. Take it to the next level
16. Barking up the wrong tree
17. Going forward
18. Let’s ballpark this
19. Run this up the flagpole
20. Back to square one
21. There’s no I in team
22. Back to the drawing board
23. Paradigm shift
24. Elephant in the room
25. Raise the bar
26. Drill down
27. Best thing since sliced bread
28. Deep dive
29. Skin in the game
30. Reach out
31. Touch base
32. Play hardball
33. Don’t reinvent the wheel
34. Kept in the loop
35. The bottom line
36. Down the road
37. I’ll loop you in
38. Hit the nail on the head
39. ASAP
40. Team player

[PAR35]

There’s no I in team

I always quickly respond,

There is no team without "M" and "E".

[Inyo-Mono]

Every time I thought outside the box at work, they told me “Don’t reinvent the wheel.”

[Bob]

“Take it to the next level” may mean down a level.

[ASOC]

Not quite a full win at Buzzword BINGO.

Need to add:

Viable alternative

Start with the clean sheet

and the ever popular and hated

You need a *Big Picture* view of the issue.....

[precisionshootist]

Did they forget my favorite? "it is what it is".

Always thought that was the dumbest statement.

Of course it is what it is cause if it wasn't what it is it would be something else and that would be what it is. lol!

[Pontiac]

Think outside the box

It is people like Woodrow Wilson, Franklin Roosevelt and Lindon Johnson who thought outside the box and got us in to this Socialist nightmare.

[Scrambler Bob]

On the other hand,

My sister made a successful career with:
“What is the problem you are trying to solve?”

[Alberta's Child]

[2ndDivisionVet]

Let’s unpack this. Inboarding. Brainstorm. White board. User friendly

[Buttons12]

The one that makes me twitchy is the filler word “really.”

[Alberta's Child]

I wouldn’t consider half of these “cringe-worthy.” Many of them are short, simple ways of saying something that would otherwise take longer to explain.

[Ann Archy]

TAKE a meeting.....DUMBEST! ! WHERE do you TAKE a meeting? You HAVE a meeting!!!!

[WayneS]

“At the end of the day” is annoying to me. The problem is I sometimes use it myself...

;-)

[precisionshootist]

Looks like they forgot another popular buzz word. "proactive"

[Lurkina.n.Learnin]

Reach around.

[RegulatorCountry]

The most hilarious trend in corporate offices is training to thing out of the box, with standard operating procedure, worksheets and reference manuals. I found that more amusing than time management seminars that involved pre-planning planning meetings.

[SpaceBar]

Yup, linguistic chase cutters.

[outofsalt]

I’ve always cringed at, “take ownership”.
Taking ownership is stealing. You can take responsibility but that’s old fashioned and, maybe, micro-aggressive?

[outofsalt]

;)