Making Contact
Stakeholder
Meeting Types
General Vocabulary
Promotion time!
100

Come back to at a later date

Circle back

100

Wayfair client

Stakeholder

100

Discuss our failures and changing nothing

Retro

100

Busier than you

Heads down

100

A spreadsheet, powerpoint, or discussion that has nothing to do with your job but gives the impression that you are next-level material.

Initiative

200
When you end a meeting early, they are...
Giving you your time back
200

An agreed upon vision

North star or Single source of truth

200

Telling 30 people who don't care, what you're doing that day

Standup

200

Not busier than you

Open bandwidth
200

Do other people's jobs

Be an owner

300

Notify me if you have an issue

Send up a flare

300

To agree upon

Align

300

A quick update meeting

TB (Touch base)

300

Message me

Ping me

400

Fill in info

Bridge the gap

400

Everyone stop working to talk about working

All hands

400

Follow up on

Bump

500

A consistent ending across the campaign

Creative wrapper

500

Foundational principle or structure

Tentpole

500

Scene

Vignette