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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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Areas of work

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Are the areas of opportunity.

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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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Take away

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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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To digress

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Change topics

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Jargon

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Special and specific vocabulary

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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
An annual general meeting
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Align
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
Idiom used to say its needed to start again since something is not working.
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Benchmarks
Standard for measuring or judging other things of the same type, like employee’s performance.
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Bandwidth
Polite way to say that you do not have the capacity to do something.
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Call it a day
Agreeing to stop something, like closing a meeting or some paperwork
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Bail out
To get out of a deal
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CEO
Chief Executive Officer.
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Core business
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
To control the available supply of a type of product ir the ability to sell it.
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ETA
Estimated time of arrival
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Entrepreneur
A person who starts a new business involving financial risks.
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Fringe benefits
Additions to employee compensations, such as pension, paid time off or a company car.
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Growth
An increase in amount, number or size
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Go the extra mile
When you do more than what’s required to do
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Know-how
Practical knowledge or skill, Expertice
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Quantum Jump
To have a big development from point A to point B
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Micromanage
When a boss controls and manage all the parts and details of your work in an annoying way
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Minutes
The written record of everything that’s happened during a meeting.
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Up-and-coming
Something that is starting to be profitable.
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Chair person
A person who guides a meeting
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Technical hitches
Problems during an online meeting
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Opportunity cost
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
Specific problems faced by current or prospective customers in the marketplace
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Quick win
Resolution or initiative that it is easy fast and relatively cheap to implement.
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R&D department
Research and development department
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Red tape
A lot of unnecessary paperwork
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Scalable
Means the company can perform well as its workload expands.
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Take ownerships
Accept responsibility
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Outlining
Give a basic format
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Tedious
Something boring
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Outspoken
Saying exactly what you think. Quite rude.
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Easy-going
Relaxed
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Run-of-the-mil
Ordinary
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Keep an open mind
To be open to new ways of thinking
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Digressing
To get out of topic
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Degree
What you study at university and have a diploma
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Career
The path you take in life
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Grow into your role
Developed to a point where you can do your job well
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Follow less conventional paths
Do something original or unusual
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Move horizontally
Change jobs for a similar salary and responsibilities
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Reach a stage
Get to a point
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Boarded your horizons
Create more opportunities for yourself
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Go beyond the scope of
Develop further than current limitations allow
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Take a step backwards
Cancel the effects of any progress you had made
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Put yourself in a better position
Improve your situation
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Bouncing around
Moving something around
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Six sigma
A tool for organisation to improve the functions of their business. Process that increase performance and decease variations and defects
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Leverage
To improve.
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New-hire
The recently ones that has/have been hired
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Access
A continuous evaluation
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PEST analysis
A way of analysing for key external factors that may affect an organisation, business or project. Political Economic Social and cultural Technological
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AOB
Any other business
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Follow-up meeting
A meeting in which topics or results form previous meetings will be discussed again.
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Steer clear of
To avoid
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Focus
To concentrate on

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