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1
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Runs the oficie

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When someone is in charge/the boss of an office

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Scouting

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To go and see

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Up and coming

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When’s something is processing.
It’s being invested in for development

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Agenda

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The topics or pints that are going to be discussed into a meeting.

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Timetable

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Schedule

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Doable and Feasible

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Take on board
On boarding process

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Upmarket

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A product that’s very expensive , bc the market considers it fancy.

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Feed forward

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To

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10
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Areas of work

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Are the areas of opportunity.

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11
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KPR

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Keep performance indicators

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360 evaluation

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Everyone (manager and peers) is giving feedback.

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Sandwich technique

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14
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Take away

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15
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Figures

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Numbers in business

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Career paths

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Career moves

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Strategic changes you do for achieving your career path

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Freelancer

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Someone who works independently for different companies.

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Patchworker

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20
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To digress

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Change topics

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21
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Jargon

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Special and specific vocabulary

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22
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Working practices

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Rules or regulations the organization implement to improve working conditions for employees

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Talent

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Another way to call the employees

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Niche market

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The specific sector of the market you are targeting your service and or product.

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Internship

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AGM

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An annual general meeting

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27
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Align

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To make sure that all levels and employees are clear about the company’s purpose and make decisions accordingly

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Back to the drawing board

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Idiom used to say its needed to start again since something is not working.

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Benchmarks

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Standard for measuring or judging other things of the same type, like employee’s performance.

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30
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Bandwidth

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Polite way to say that you do not have the capacity to do something.

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31
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Call it a day

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Agreeing to stop something, like closing a meeting or some paperwork

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32
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Bail out

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To get out of a deal

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CEO

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Chief Executive Officer.

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Core business

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The business that makes the most money for a company and it’s considered to be the most important and central one.

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Corner the market

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To control the available supply of a type of product ir the ability to sell it.

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ETA

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Estimated time of arrival

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Entrepreneur

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A person who starts a new business involving financial risks.

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Fringe benefits

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Additions to employee compensations, such as pension, paid time off or a company car.

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Growth

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An increase in amount, number or size

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Go the extra mile

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When you do more than what’s required to do

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Know-how

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Practical knowledge or skill,
Expertice

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Quantum Jump

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To have a big development from point A to point B

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Micromanage

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When a boss controls and manage all the parts and details of your work in an annoying way

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Minutes

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The written record of everything that’s happened during a meeting.

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Up-and-coming

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Something that is starting to be profitable.

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Chair person

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A person who guides a meeting

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Technical hitches

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Problems during an online meeting

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Opportunity cost

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The value At the next best thing you give up whenever you make a decision. It’s the potential loss from a missed business opportunity.

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Pain point

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Specific problems faced by current or prospective customers in the marketplace

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Quick win

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Resolution or initiative that it is easy fast and relatively cheap to implement.

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R&D department

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Research and development department

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Red tape

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A lot of unnecessary paperwork

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Scalable

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Means the company can perform well as its workload expands.

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Take ownerships

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Accept responsibility

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Outlining

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Give a basic format

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Tedious

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Something boring

57
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Outspoken

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Saying exactly what you think.
Quite rude.

58
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Easy-going

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Relaxed

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Run-of-the-mil

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Ordinary

60
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Keep an open mind

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To be open to new ways of thinking

61
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Digressing

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To get out of topic

62
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Degree

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What you study at university and have a diploma

63
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Career

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The path you take in life

64
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Grow into your role

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Developed to a point where you can do your job well

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Follow less conventional paths

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Do something original or unusual

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Move horizontally

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Change jobs for a similar salary and responsibilities

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Reach a stage

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Get to a point

68
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Boarded your horizons

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Create more opportunities for yourself

69
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Go beyond the scope of

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Develop further than current limitations allow

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Take a step backwards

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Cancel the effects of any progress you had made

71
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Put yourself in a better position

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Improve your situation

72
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Bouncing around

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Moving something around

73
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Six sigma

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A tool for organisation to improve the functions of their business.
Process that increase performance and decease variations and defects

74
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Leverage

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To improve.

75
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New-hire

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The recently ones that has/have been hired

76
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Access

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A continuous evaluation

77
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PEST analysis

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A way of analysing for key external factors that may affect an organisation, business or project.
Political
Economic
Social and cultural
Technological

78
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AOB

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Any other business

79
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Follow-up meeting

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A meeting in which topics or results form previous meetings will be discussed again.

80
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Steer clear of

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To avoid

81
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Focus

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To concentrate on

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