Are you wondering why you aren't getting ahead at work?  Maybe it's your 'office speak'.

There are a lot of overused work phrases.  According to the website SPANA here is a list of the Most Overused Office Jargon:

  1. Blue sky thinking
  2. Think outside the box
  3. Touch base offline
  4. Close of play
  5. Going forward
  6. No brainer
  7. Action that
  8. Drill down
  9. Thought shower
  10. Beating a dead horse
  11. Hot desking
  12. Heads up
  13. It’s on my radar
  14. Joined up thinking
  15. Bring to the table
  16. Punch a puppy (to do something detestable but good for the business)
  17. Run this up the flagpole
  18. Cracking the whip
  19. Moving the goalposts
  20. EOP (end of play)
  21. Working fingers to the bone
  22. Game changer
  23. It’s not rocket science
  24. Hit the ground running
  25. Ping (get back to, send, as in email)
  26. Low hanging fruit
  27. Singing from the same hymn sheet
  28. Strategic staircase
  29. Park something
  30. Benchmark
  31. COB
  32. Reach out (contact)
  33. Re-inventing the wheel
  34. Dot the Is and cross the Ts
  35. Best practice
  36. Al Desko (lunch at the desk)
  37. Back burner
  38. Pick it up and run with it
  39. Play hardball
  40. This idea has legs
  41. Synergy
  42. I’m swamped
  43. It’s a win / win
  44. Look under the hood
  45. Quick and dirty
  46. Peel the onion
  47. Out of the loop
  48. Wow factor
  49. Helicopter view
  50. Elevator pitch

Where’s 'nose to the grindstone', 'Push the envelope', 'Develop a new paradigm'?

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