I believe many of us use two different languages. One for personal things we connect to emotionally and the other professional language is designed to hide our true feelings and to “make an impression”.
I remember an Accenture consultant who came home for dinner. My wife naively asked what do you do? He said something like… “we leverage the clients knowledge assets through our robust processes to deliver maximum value to our clients and their stakeholders.” I burst out laughing seeing my wife’s confused look. I said that is consultant – speak. His wife told us if you wake him from his sleep he will say this and go back to sleep.
In my classes whenever I hear language like this, I ask them to translate into English please.
First published as a response to a LinkedIn post. Read it here.
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