Corporate jargon; although being an absolutely meaningless vernacular, can make you feel productive and even somewhat important. If you haven’t already, try throwing out a few of the following key phrases during your next corporate meeting. You might be surprised at how savvy your colleagues think you are.

• Give me the download on the new brand strategy when you have a minute.
• We should net-down on a proof-of-concept before moving forward with production.
• Let’s take this discussion offline and talk about resource-allocation.
• Do you have the bandwidth to review this copy deck by end-of-day tomorrow?
• I think grouping the content into three buckets would make the most sense.
• You’ll get your list of deliverables during the kick-off on monday morning.
• Grab James and we’ll have a pow-wow about these new wireframe schematics.
• Go ahead and table that idea for now and we’ll revisit it later.
• Did you get that sandbox set up for back-end development of the new microsite?
• I’ll be out-of-pocket all next week, so we’ll have to reschedule our white-boarding session.
• If we drill down a little deeper, we might be able to uncover the core values.
• We’re getting some push-back from the client on this marketing budget.
• Let’s get together for some blue-sky thinking around this viral campaign.

If you find that you are experiencing difficulty committing these and other corporate terms and phrases to memory, don’t fret. They are available in a handy flashcard format for quick and easy reference.

Tags: culture, how-to, new words
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