Saturday, March 25, 2017

Scoring System for Presentations



Start with 100 points and then, if the speaker uses:
  1. "The bottom line" = minus 15 points.
  2. "Walk the talk" = minus 20 points.
  3. "Go to the mat" = minus 20 points.
  4. "Unpack" = minus 8 points.
  5. "Jumped the shark" = minus 18 points.
  6. "Empower" = minus 5 points.
  7. "Cut to the chase" = minus 15 points.
  8. "At the end of the day" = minus 30 points.
  9. "In the weeds" = minus 10 points.
  10. "C suite" = minus 25 points.
  11. "It is what it is." = minus 30 points.
  12. "Throw (someone) under the bus." = minus 20 points.

2 comments:

Vince Dunn said...

"Synergy" -10 (-15 if the plural is used)

"Outside the box" -25

Michael Wade said...

Vince,

Excellent.

I am stunned that I could have forgotten "outside the box."

Thanks!

Michael