to despise the fact that all paperwork (most of it being irrelevant and piss boring) is referred ot as a bleedin' 'toolkit'?

[moondog]

This nasty habit particulalry prevalent in educational/social services circles.

I want to scream 'A toolkit is a big metal box full of hammers and spanners you numpties, not a bloody great box full or useless bureacratic crap put together by an emascualted civil servant with tinned ravioli for balls and a jelly for a brain!!!!'

Am in v v v bad mood today. Obv

I like the sound of that wrinkly! rules please?

I think that would add value, wrinklytum. It might even be a powerful tool.

Thanks moondog. the worst part is, that having gone through the whole lot and "evidenced" (don't get me started on nouns used as verbs) each point, one of the pages on the e-form, told me I only need to "evidence" two particular points. Frankly, I don't believe it. I didn't believe it either, when it told me not to fill in section four, then directed me straight to that self-same section.
However, it's all done and submitted now, can't change it even if I wanted to.

I am sure it must have been done on here before.You get a choice of stock "In words" IE "Choice" "Quality standards" "Toolkit" "Pathway" "Inclusive" and so on,and when you are next in an Important meeting ,you tick em off when they are referenced.:0

Passes the time

Oh lets get our stock sorted....I have a team meeting in two weeks. but other meetings before that!

Love love loving your work ladies
(and am all geared up tp play bingo)

at taking farmed on the chin and drizzling and brokering

What a heap of hippo turd.

Other words for bingo:

Empowerment
Ownership
Heads up
Best practice/Good practice (sp - can never remember whether it's s or c!)
Partnership

Back in my day as a HR manager I used to play bullshit bingo all the time.... other phrases for your consideration:

helicopter view
going forward
soup to nuts

When using and refering to such things as toolkits (and believe me HR is rife with such nonsense) I used to have out-of-body experiences just listening to myself spouting crap.

Needless to say I am no longer a HR manager

I remember being forced to attend a training session on DMAIC processes (don't ask).

I felt as though I'd been sucked into the Dilbertverse

opposite of 'cascade' is 'escalate', I think
'stakeholders' and 'sponsors'
'management buy-in'
'managing expectations'
'thought leader'
'validation'
'iteration'
'joined up thinking' v 'silos'
'workflow'

OOooh yes Blueshoes - "Silo" - an excellent one.

I love bullshit bingo, it is the only way to pass the time in meetings. A couple of others:

Value Added
Strategy
bluesky thinking - WTF
push the envelope (but that seems to have had its day)

Will think of some others

facilitate

entry criteria

exit criteria

'Going forwards' always pisses me off. Like a business or organisation might actually want to go backwards... why not just use the future tense?

Hate this whole fuss about 'silos' as well. Unless you are a farmer. I once worked for publishing company that wanted to get rid of silos - like there would be ANY point in the editorial team on, I dunno, Estates Gazette, sitting in meetings with the classified ads people on Hairdresser's Journal.

Thank you, littlefish. 'Silo' is Sharon Shoesmith one which gives it extra f__kwittery, though my organisation uses it as well.

I have more ...

'Timelines' and 'milestones'
'Change management'
'Backfill' ?? Used in the context of hiring/contracting to fill a temporary vacancy
'Benchmarking'
'Goldplating'

Can I add "gold standard".

Silo was bandied around in my last organisation too (education/children's services place). It used to make me want to start shouting "oo ar, oo ar", like a comedy farmer .

Just remembered another one...

"Lining all our ducks up"

I hate hate hate 'service user'. I cant bring myself to use it. ever.

But the service providers need someone to use them.

Agree littlefish, and its variant "ducks in a row'

Even more ...

Early adopters
Pilot
Quick wins
Low lying fruits
Seachange
Root and branch
Grassroots

I just cannot for the life of me understand quite where it all originates from, are there people who are paid to sit about thinking up this utter nonsense or is it cascaded down in a joined up thinking kind of way, from the great toolkit in the sky???

"Golden thread" is another. Grr.

Oh, and quick win.

win win
KPIs (Key Performance Indicators)

Oh no - my mind has gone blank. I am so used to them that they don't stand out as being rubbish.

KSF?

On one of my courses last semester, my lecturer would begin the lecture with, 'okay, linguistic toolkits at the ready'. She drove me insane!

ooh I had a good one yesterday, from someone who was trying to arrange a conference call
"Please let me know if the time mentioned is acceptable as I will need to notify my resources"
Tell your staff you mean?