There are meaningless phrases that don’t get used often these days and I rather miss, like “run that idea up the flagpole and see who salutes it”.
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David
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‘Reach out to…’
Bleurgh!
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At the end of the day how do we rid ourselves of meaningless phrases? Going forwards we must redouble our efforts 110%, twenty four seven, in our journey to meaningfulness. As an added extra we could perhaps make a free giveaway available to many woman. Perhaps a slither of cake?
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Good idea! Let’s run it up the flagpole and see who salutes it! Literally.
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David
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I don’t know, David. Maybe we should kick the tyres.
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Lets take this offline…
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Massive!
Stakeholders.
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Good to see that we all all engaging in the onboarding process.
Whenever I hear Stakeholders, I always think “Van Helsing” 
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Prime Minister
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What’s wrong with stakeholders? What would you say instead, in one word?
What’s wrong with it? Depersonalisation of the individuals involved.
What would you use instead? When I worked in local government stakeholder management was really critical. Local residents, council tax payers, clients, client’s families, visitors, local businesses, other local authorities, central government, the list goes on. Should we write the list every time? It would make reports awfully long.
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Frankly I’d say yes, list everyone, at least at some point in the discussion.
I’m afraid I never really got over the NHS’ decisions to regard patients as ‘clients’, utter bollocks from management types which effectively turned people into numbers. You may not feel that way, I do.
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Take an elderly person receiving home care, or a fostered child. What are they? Certainly not patents. Not really customers. Hence clients.
Well, they most certainly are not “patents”…
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Maybe they are. Every client is unique. I’m writing this crap while running backwards and forwards to the kitchen cooking a tortilla Espagnola. I got nearly all the letters right.
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They are…people, individuals with individual needs but they have to be pigeon-holed these days.
Don’t get me wrong it’s an effective phrase, I just don’t like it.
let’s hope I get nearly all my landings right tomorrow…