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10 most used Corporate Jargons in the business world – Business English Lesson - YouTube
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Hi friends I'm Rachna and today's class is
about corporate jargon. Now what are jargons?
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A jargon is
a word or an expression used by professionals
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and well more often than not, we don't understand
what they mean when they use these jargons.
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Well, so IT people have their own jargons,
people who are marketers have marketing jargons
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and when they use it with their co-workers,
they understand exactly what they mean, but
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maybe you and I won', okay. So, today we are
going to look at common jargons that we use
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in our day to day work life. The first on
is, to be on the same page. Now, to be on
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the same page doesn't mean that you're literally
on the same page, but it means to have the
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same amount of understanding or to agree with
someone. okay. Now supposing I am proposing
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an idea in in a meeting and I suggest something,
and I look at a colleague of mine and say,
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"Are you in the same page?" okay. That means
I'masking him if he agrees with me or does
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he feel the same or does he have you know
are we like minded on this point. So when
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you ask someone, "Are you on the same page?",
you're actually asking if they agree with
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you or if they have the same understanding
as you do.
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Now supposing a mother is telling her child
something and he really does not follow it,
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she tells him, "We're not on the same page.
Now listen carefully to what I'm telling you."
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That means she's asking him to understand
or to agree with her, okay. So remember, to
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be on the same page means to have the same
amount of understanding or to agree with someone,
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okay. The next jargon is ball park figure.
Now, a ballpark figure is a tentative number
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or say an approximate number or a figure.
This is very commonly used by sales professionals,
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accounts and basically all the people who
deal with numbers all the time, okay. Now
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supposing I order five coffee vending machines
for my office and I ask him to give me a discount.
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So, I really need to know how much I'm gonna
pay him. So I tell him, "After discount, how
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much do I need to pay you?" okay, what's my
bill amount? And he tells me, "Ma'am, I've
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not calculated the exact amount after discount,
but well the ballpark figure is say five hundred
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dollars, okay. That means he's giving me an
approximate number, okay. So many time you
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hear uh sales uh you know the sales head or
the departmental head asking his team, "So
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how much have you all achieved this month?
Have you all achieved your targets?" So people
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uh generally have not calculated the exact
figure, but they do give him a ballpark figure.
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That means uh you know just a tentative or
an approximate number. So it's not the exact
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number or figure, but somewhere close to that
number or figure. SO a ballpark figure means
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an approximate number or figure, okay. The
next jargon is bandwidth. Oh, this is not
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the one we talk about when we uh express the
rate of data transfer. When we use it in our
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work life, you know on day to day basis, we
use it to say the willingness to do something,
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or the physical or the mental stamina or the
ability to do something. Now supposing I have
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a lot of projects in my hand and my boss gives
me one more, okay an additional one, I tell
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him, "Sir, honestly I do not have the bandwidth
to take on a new project. That means I mentally
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or physically just cannot take on a new project,
okay or sometimes you have a manager allocating
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uh or allotting work to his junior and tells
him, "Do you have the bandwidth to complete
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this by tomorrow evening?" That means hes's
asking his subordinate if he has the ability,
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if if you know the physical or the mental
ability of completing the work by tomorrow
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evening, okay. So the the jargon used is-
do you have the bandwidth to complete this
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by tomorrow evening, right? So remember it
means the physical or the mental ability of
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working, okay. The next one is circle back.
Well, very simple. Circle back means talk
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later. Now suppose I am extremely busy and
I get a call, uh you know probably uh making
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plans for the Christmas party at in the office.
So I say , "I'm busy right now, could we circle
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back later on?" Okay, that means could I talk
later. So I'm really busy right now, I can't
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speak on this right now. Could I circle back
or could we circle back later. That means
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could we discuss this later. So when you wanna
talk about something later, you always use
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the expression circle back, okay friends.
Well, the next one is face time. Well, face
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time simple, in person meeting. That means
a face to face meeting, okay. So I could say
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that John has requested for some face time
with the CEO of the company next week. That
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means he has requested for some time to meet
in person. To meet whom? The CEO of the company,
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okay. Well, I wish you and I could have some
face time. You know learning English would
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be lot more fun. Fine, so face time means
in person meeting, a face to face exchange.
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Well, the next one is leverage. This is the
most common jargon used in our corporate lives.
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It means to take maximum benefit or advantage
of something, okay. So well, every organisation
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needs to leverage its key resources. That
means every organisation needs to take maximum
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benefit or advantage of its key resources
right, to be successful. Well, sometimes we
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are in a situation where uh we leverage on.
That means we take maximum benefit or advantage
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. So you see the situation is going to work
in your favor and you act accordingly, that
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means you are leveraging on the situation.
So when you leverage it means you take maximum
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benefit or advantage of a situation or something,
it could be a company leveraging its resources,
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right. So this is the most common jargon used
in corporate world. Well, the next one is
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phone tag. Now phone tag, obviously the word
phone has uh got to do with telephone. Now
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a phone tag is when two people are trying
to contact each other over the telephone,
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okay, and they always happen to miss each
other's call. So supposing I call a client
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of mine and he's not at his desk, I leave
a voicemail and when he calls me back, I'm
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not at my desk and then he leaves a voicemail
and very often this exchange happens where
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we are just unable to get in touch with each
other over the phone. So, it's a very common
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situation, okay and that is the time I'm gonna
say finally when I get him on the phone, I'm
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gonna tell him, " We've been playing phone
tag since morning." Okay, so playing phone
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tag means we've been trying to get in touch
with each other okay, but the situation just
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does not permit to. Okay. Fine, so phone tag
is a situation where two people try to reach
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out to each other over the phone, but both
are busy and they always happen to miss each
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other's call, fine? The next one is piggyback.
Now, the word piggyback actually means to
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carry someone on your back shoulders okay,
like you have uh you know a father carrying
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his lil girl on the back and playing, so you
piggyback. But well when you use it in your
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corporate life, that means you actually steal
someone's idea without giving no credit to
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the person. Now supposing I overhear a colleague
uh talking about a nice marketing plan and
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you know it's his idea, it's his great mind
and I kind of feel I should steal it and propose
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the same thing in the meeting, so I piggyback
on his idea and make a similar proposal so
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I get the credit. So people are going to get
really impressed by what I said or suggested
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as a marketing plan . But if you go to see,
it is not original my idea, I have stolen
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it from a colleague, alright? So that means
I piggybacked on his idea and proposed the
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same in the meeting. So well friends, a very
wrong thing to do, don't piggyback, okay,
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because it's it's rude it's mean to steal
people's ideas and thoughts and take the credit
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for it, alright, because it's really not your
idea. So let people have theirs. So that is
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what piggyback means, okay. So imagine in
the meeting when I propose the same, he's
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going to know she piggybacked this from me
and probably Rachna just overheard me saying
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it. So well, don't piggyback, okay. Well the
next one is per se. Now per se means in itself
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or by itself. Okay, now uh we usually use
this expression 'per se' when we talk about
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a particular thing in its own or on its own.
Now supposing a colleague of mine sang at
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the Christmas party, and well, it didn't go
too well, so I tell her, "The song er se was
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nice, but your voice was pathetic." I won't
say patheic, but your voice wasn't up to the
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mark, okay. When I say the song per se was
nice, I mean to say the song by itself was
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fabulous. Her choice of song was fantastic,
in itself the song was brilliant but her voice
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was not that great. Probably it was cracking
or he had a real bad cold, so I'm gonna say
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per se, okay. So uh well, sometimes uh I do
tell a friend of mine, "the dress that you're
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going to wear is beautiful." So the dress
per se is lovely , but the way you carry it
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matters. That means the dress by itself is
a very beautiful piece, but the way you carry
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it at the party is completely up to you. So
use per se, okay. Or sometimes we have a fool,uh
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you know a foolproof plan. So I'll say well
the plan per se is foolproof, but how the
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team executes it, is a different story altogether.
That means the plan by itself is excellent,
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okay, but how they execute it is a different
story altogether. So when you abut something
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that is small, a single element from a bigger
thing or when you wan to talk about a thing
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or anything particular on its own, by itself
or in itself, you use the expression per se,
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okay. Oh, the last one seamless. Now seamless
means without any seams, okay. It means smooth
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or it means without any interruptions, without
any gaps, okay. Okay. Now what is a seam?
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A seam is when, for example, I have a fabric
and another fabric and then there are stitches
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in between, right, so you can see it. There's
a seam. So seamless is exactly opposite. It's
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smooth, you can't make out. If there's a problem
you just can't make out. Now for example,
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uh my boss gives me a very difficult and a
very challenging task to do and I do it beautifully,
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okay. Of course I did have my issues, I did
face uh you know uh, it was very daunting
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and it was challenging, but the outcome was
fabulous. He's going to compliment me and
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say by saying, "You did a seamless job." You
know, that means it was so beautifully done,
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so smooth and so well done without any difficult,
without any interruption, maybe without bothering
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him, right? So he'll say, "Rachna, you did
a seamless job." Now for example, uh you know,
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there's this actress giving this really challenging
shot in font of the camera, and she hopes
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that she does it one go and she actually does.
The director is going to praise her and say,
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"Wow! That's a sheam seamless shot you gave."
Okay, that means it was beautiful, you brought
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out the emotions without any difficulty, without
any interruptions, maybe without any retakes,
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okay. So that is the way we use seamless.
When something is performed smoothly, without
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you know without any difficulty or interruption,
we use the word seamless. Alright friends,
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well these are the ten corporate jargons for
today. I hope you enjoyed learning them. I'm
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sure you're going to use them now. I'll be
back soon with a new lesson, till then take care and bye
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