Please Stop Saying These Ridiculous Phrases at WorkThese sayings have taken over our vocabulary so much that our everyday conversations sound like they're taking place on another planet.
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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."
我理解的诱惑。这些短语spicy and they make you feel clever (low hanging fruitis 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,TalentSmarthas 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 yourselfbeforeyou use them again.
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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...
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Aversion of this articlefirst appeared at TalentSmart.com.
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