Do not confuse with the accountant, or Accountant. Account is basically an abbreviation of “Account Manager”, or “customer guardian”. In practice, a person who deals with acquiring and taking care of clients. There are several varieties of this position, depending on the position in the hierarchy: it can be Junior Account, Senior Account, but also, for example, Key Account – that is, the guardian of key clients for the company.
Accept, approval. If you got it, it means that you have completed a form well and you can, for example, get a new mouse.
Asap
As Soon as Possible – literally means “as soon as possible”. In practice, ASAP is usually simply “for now, and preferably yesterday”. Who did not get a task from the boss with the note ASAP, he has not yet met a heavy corpo-life.
Brainstorm
Polish brainstorming. Each team must “break” if they want to be creative and have results. At least in theory. The English version is simply shorter, both in pronunciation and writing, so it is easier to use, e.g. in emails.
During Brainstorm, all tricks are allowed (frame from “Silicon Valley”)
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Brief
Description of the project or a given case to settle. It can also be developed to the briefing form, i.e. a meeting where someone informs us what and how it looks in a given case. A beautiful expression was also created from this “to miss” – that is, simply to inform someone about the state of affairs.
Boat
Just management, so fortunately the word is rarely used.
Case
From English “Case”, here: a business example or a project to be done. Specific cases – examples – can be discussed at a meeting, e.g. a successful marketing campaign (“But interesting case!”). You can also get a case to do (project) and then it is better not to have “fakap”.
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COO/CEO/CFO
Three key positions on the board. The most important of the most important. The president is CEO (Chief Executive Officer), CFO is the head of finance (Chief Financial Officer), while COO is a closer to the indefinite role that looks different in every corporation – Chief Operating Officer. He usually makes sure that everything works properly. Of all the people on the board, COOs have the most common contact with lower level employees.
Crunch Time
The overtime that we spend in the office to make it with the project on Deadline.
If the Deadline is approaching, you will probably have to work at the work of Crunch Time
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Deadline
Final term, until when we can do a given item. Failure to do deadline usually means a powerful fakap, so it's better not to leave anything at the last minute.
Feedback
Response, feedback. This usually means an assessment of our achievements.
Fuck up
In Poland, this was Polish for “Fakap”. To put it mildly, “Fakap” is a slip -up or crisis. The last word you ever want to hear – whether in the context of assessing your work or upcoming tasks. “Fakap” strangely successfully appears in one sentence with “ASAP”.
Fyi
For your information, i.e. for your information. Most often, this shortcut appears in emails.
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KPI (pronounced Kej-Pi-Aj)
From English Key Performance Indicators, i.e. key performance indicators. When translating into human language, these are usually numerical goals to be fulfilled for a given employee. There are often revenues for higher-level managers. In the case of marketing, it can be, for example, the clickiness of the advertising campaign.
Milestone
The key point of the project, often at the same time a long -term goal for employees. For example: only when you achieve a given milestone will you get a bonus.
OpenSpace
This is a great space where the employees of the lower levels sit and work in sweat at their desks.
Each OpenSpace is different, but you can look at your computer in each
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Request
Request or order.
Target
The target group, recipient of our work/project. Both media, advertising creators and banks have their targets – indeed, every product, whether clothes or a new type of telecommunications service, usually has its own target.
Workflow
It may as well mean how we work and the atmosphere at work. When everything goes like blood from the nose, then there is a weak workflow. If we finished the project before Deadlin and there was no fakap – it means that Workflow was great.
Note from the publisher: The above article was originally published in May 2016 and was updated.
