Corporate bollocks: "what good looks like"

[StealthPolarBear]

I'm dying to say good is a value judgement. You can't see it, but if you could I imagine it would be a gold shimmer/halo type thing.

But "good" has meaning other than moral virtue.

If I am training someone to devise a spreadsheet at work for a particular financial process, I might show them an existing example which is well-structured, easy to follow, etc - "so you know what good looks like". I suppose it's what used to be called "best practice".

I generally have an aversion to management cliches but I don't think this one is too bad, until of course it gets over-used.

It's a way of deflecting the mild 'Yes, of course, but what do you actually mean by that?' when faced with a line manager who hasn't got a scooby demanding that x is Good.

It's used everywhere from schoolwork to care homes.

It just means 'this is what best practice' looks like.

So neat copy books, up to date SOPs, neatly stacked shelves, proper drug rotation etc.

Annd...I've just realised you get that!

Do you hear the whoosh of your joke flying over my head there?

Examples in plain language

I can make it look pretty/pleasing to the eye/easy to extract the information without risking eyestrain

I can make it functional without being an assault upon the eyes/ears/aesthetic sensitivities of the viewer

I can sound competent, polite, able to listen and respond accordingly

In Corporategonadism

It exemplifies the ethos of [insert company tagline here] in all aspects of the operation.

It's just a word.

The one that gets me is the over used 'very'. It either is or it isn't.

There is money in bullshit though. Deloitte (or similar) got paid 500k just to define the vision and values of track and trace

Money for nothing.......

If only that was the only example of stupid corporate language....

I hate these over-used phrases. Why not just say 'Here's an example of how the process should work'?

It reminds me of the Primary school acronym WAGOLL.
What a good one looks like.

@love51 I am a chair of governors, education sure does like to make its own stuff up :)

Lol at it being used in primary schools, is it accompanied by a picture of a dog?
"Talk to the slides/argument /other thing" is the other one that has crept into my workplace in the last year or so. I talk to people (and dogs, and occasionally inanimate objects, but that usually includes some swearing)

I see it used everywhere, but of all the corporate bollocks I hear it’s one that sounds relatively normal.