Cringe… do you think giving someone the ‘heads up’ whilst ‘touching base’ about the ‘blue sky thinking’ session where you lined up all your ‘ducks in a row’ and ’sung from the same hymn sheet’ is likely to impress your new boss?
Strangely people believe that using business phrases like that have a positive impact on their career, NO, NO, NO stop waffling and get to the point. I actually used to work with a man who tried to use all of these phrases in the same breath, people in the office used to bet on number of times he would use one, unfortunately on an average call it usually come in at 4, what must the person on the other end think!!