I don’t use them at work much (maybe a little), but honestly I like the phrases, they help me communicate complex things that would be harder to spell out. And no, I’m not trying to be smart, but I am trying to communicate things with nuance that otherwise get lost easily.

For example, hard stop. People often don’t listen when I set boundaries around time. So hard stop means, I actually am leaving at this time, I will get up and walk out the door even if Andrew is still talking and everyone else is listening while waiting for him to get to the point. Hard stop is much faster than saying that entire sentence.

Circle back I use a lot- I get distracted easily and it’s l easy to go on a tangent. Once we’ve resolved this issue we’re talking about, let’s circle back to the original problem or this other issue that needs more attention now that we’ve resolved this other thing, that feels way more efficient to just say let’s circle back.

Cohort feels way more specific than group. A cohort is a specific group within a group of groups often in placement of when we all showed up and aw knowledges all we’ve been through together, but works before we’re a team. Idk I find these phrase helpful.

But if people are ELL I can see them being exclusionary…