(This speech exercise is part of the Speak For Success Course. While you can use this exercise to work on your speech skills at any time, it’s designed to work on a particular speech skill that you can find out more about at Speak for Success Speech Lesson 5.)
The easy part of the exercise: read this list of business buzzwords.
The hard part of the exercise: strip these meaningless buzzwords from your speech (and from your thinking).
Actionable
Actualize
Best practice
Conceptualize
Cash-neutral
Cost-centered
Customer-centered
Customer-directed
Empowered
Empowerment
Game plan
Heads-up
Intellectual capital
Knowledge management
Leverage
Low-hanging fruit
Market segment
Mission critical
Mission statement
Operationalize
Outside the box
Paradigm shift
Positioning
Push the envelope
Ramp up
Resource constrained
Risk management
Smartsize
Solution
Strategic fit
Strategic alliance
Synergize
Touch base
Value-added
Vision statement
Win-Win
Feel free to add to this list – new business buzzwords are being created (and abused) all the time!
