Drowned by Jargon
I attended a professional development conference today. While some of the recommendations were very good, they were drowned by jargon. "Let’s discuss this offline some more. You should talk about that offline. That’s an offline conversation." (A variation of this was stated seven times in one hour. Ugh.)
We were all physically gathered together, so the discussion was never online. This dreadful term “talk offline” is business-speak for “talk privately.”
Other jargon bantered by the presenter:
Let’s debrief so we can pull best practices from this.
What can we do to stake things up, so it doesn’t happen again?
How can we best ramp our efforts?
I hear you.
It was impossible for me to “hear” this presenter because her excessive jargon drowned her good content.
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