Oh isn't "Business speak" just wonderful, when I first started working in the corporate environment way back when I was young and naive and rather intimidated by some of the things managers say. I quickly came to realise most of it is complete rubbish; a selection of business speak and an outrageous reliance on acronyms. Here I'm dedicating a page to some of the terms I think are the funniest.

These one's I got from the BBC here

• Going forward
• Idea showers - instead of brainstorm
• Incentivise
• Let's touch base about that offline
• You can't turn a tanker around with a speedboat change

• We need a holistic, cradle to grave approach
• You don't have problems, you have challenges
• I've got you on my radar
• Quick win
• low hanging fruit

• Kick the tyres
• Look under the bonnet
• Pre-prepare
• Forward planning
• Pre-plan

• Think outside the box
• Conversate
• In this space
• How can I help in this space
• How can we help our customers in this space going forward

• From the get-go
• Go forward together
• 360-degree thinking
• We are still optimistic results will feed through the delivery pipeline
• We'd better not let the grass grow too long on this one

• Get all my ducks in a row
• My door is open on this issue
• Close of play
• Actioning
• And also in addition

• Where are we at
• At the end of the day
• 110%
• Not enough bandwidth
• Out of the loop

• You can't have your cake and eat it, so you have to step up to the plate and face the music
• The stakeholders must come to the party
• We must get stakeholder buy-in
• Paradigm shifts
• Feeding it back

• cascading
• cascading down
• granularity
• leverage
• leverage their talents

• Mitigating immediate impacts
• Strategic staircase
• Drill down
• Impactful article
• High altitude view

These are some my Dad came up with (please don't let them be one's he's really heard!)

• We've got to work out the ceiling before we determine the start
• Don't worry about the socks, lets look at the shoes
• Processing the ham to see what the beef was like

Here's a selection from wikipedia here

• Add -age to lots of words e.g. signage, breakage, etc
• Lets connect ear to ear
• Heads up
• Leverage, to leverage, leveraged
• Touch base

And a few more from BBC here.

• Blue sky thinking
• Pushing the envelope
• Give me a heads-up
• Lets dialogue around the issue

Another one is "going forward" loads of people use it, grammatically you should actually be saying "going forwards" but don't use either! Argh I say this!