Hello and welcome to Learning English for Work, the podcast where we help you improve your business English.
I'm Phil.
And I'm Pippa.
Today we're talking more about business jargon, and specifically jargon for when things are going well at work.
Yes, today's episode is all about jargon for success at work.
Remember, you can find all the vocabulary from this episode and a full transcript to read along on our website, BBC learning english.com so, Pippa, there's a lot of jargon around being successful and getting results at work, right?
Yes.
We've talked before on the podcast about how managers like to use a lot of jargon.
So business leaders are more likely to say they like jargon, whereas other people find it annoying.
And it's the managers that tend to be responsible for making sure that everyone's meeting certain goals and is being successful.
And so they seem to have developed quite a few common metaphors to talk about these goals, how we measure them and how we succeed in them.
So let's have a look at a few jargon phrases.
Okay, so the first phrase we have is low hanging fruit.
And this is to talk about the most easily achievable tasks or goals.
So imagine that you are picking some apples, Phil.
It's much easier to get the apples at the bottom, the low hanging fru fruit.
And so someone at work might advise you to do that, to go for the low hanging fruit.
Yes.
And there's another one we've got here, move the needle.
And I think that's about making a noticeable change.