Made your New Year resolutions yet?

If one of them is to avoid rubbing your colleagues up the wrong way by using annoying buzz words or pompous corporate-speak you’ll find this list of the most irritating phrases extremely handy. According to a survey conducted by Marketing magazine, the ten sayings to avoid at all costs in 2016 are:

1. Growth hacking (for the uninitiated, this is apparently a marketing technique developed by technology start-ups that use creativity, analytical thinking and social metrics to sell products and gain exposure)
2. Fail forward (meaning to describe the ethos of learning from failure)
3. Let’s socialise this (closely related to “Let’s touch base” – commonly known as ‘talking’)
4. Shift the dial (a new way of saying ‘making progress’ that surely originated in America)
5. Let’s workshop this
6. Level playing field
7. Let’s not boil the ocean (a polite way of suggesting something is too ambitious or complicated)
8. Content is king
9. I may have a window for you
10. Think outside the box

I’m sure you can you add to this list – email to share your favourites!

Wishing you a happy and healthy New Year.