Acronyms Compiled - Workplace

AFK - Away from Keyboard
AKA - Also Known As
AM - Ante Meridian
ASAP - As Soon As Possible
ATEOTD - At The End Of The Day
ATM - At The Moment
AWOL - Absent without Leave
AYW - As You Want/Wish


B2B - Business To Business
B2C - Busineess To Consumer
BC - Because
BID - Break It Down
BRB - Be Right Back
BTW - By The Way


CEO - Chief Executive Officer
CFO - Chief Financial Officer
COB - Close if Business
COB or COP - Close of business or close of play.
COO - Chief Operating Officer
CRAAP - Currency, Relevance, Authority, Accuracy, and Purpose.
CRM - Customer Relationship Management
CRM - Customer Relationship Manager
CSR - Customer Sales Representative


DAE - Does anyone else...?
DEF - Definitely
DEI - Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
DFTBA - Don't forget to be awesome!
DILO - Day In the Life Of
DM - Direct Message
DMC - Deep and meaningful conversation.


ELI5 - Explain like I'm 5 (years old).
EOD - End of Day
EOT - End of Thread
EOW - End of Week
ETA - Estimated Time of Arrival


FTFY - Fixed that for you
FUTAB - Feet up, take a break
FWIW - For What It's Worth
FYI - For Your Information


GDP - Gross Domestic Product
GROW - Goal, current Reality, Options (or Obstacles), and Will (or Way forward).
GTMTA - Great Minds Think Alike
GTR - Getting ready.


HAND - Have a nice day.


IAC - In Any Case
IAM - In A Meeting
ICYMI - In Case You Missed It
IMO - In My Opinion
IRL - In real life.


JGI - Just Google It


KISS - Keep It Simple Stupid
KPI - Key Performance Indicator
KRA - Key Result Area
LET - Leaving early today.


LLC - Limited Liability Company
LMK - Let Me Know
LOL - Laughing out loud


MBO - Management by Objectives
MBWA - Management by Wandering Around


NASA - National Areonautics and Space Administration
NBD - No Big Deal
NDA - Non-Disclosure Agreement
NP - No Problem
NRN - No Relply Necessary
NSFW - Not Safe for Work
NWR - Not Work Related


OGSM - Objective, Goal, Strategies, and Measures
OHIO - Only Handle It Once
OLT - On Line Training
OMY - On My Way
OOO - Out of Office
OSKAR - Outcome, Scale, Know-how, Affirm + Action, and Review
OT - Off Topic
OTP - On The Phone


PEST - Political, Economic, Socio-cultural, and Technological changes in your environment.
POC - Point of Contact
POSDCORB - Planning, Organizing, Staffing, Directing, Coordinating, Reporting, and Budgeting
PTO - Paid Time Off


RFP - Request for Proposal
ROI - Return on Investment


SCAMPER - Substitute, Combine, Adapt, Modify, Put to another use, Eliminate, and Reverse
SEO - Search Engine Optimization
SMART - Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic and Timely
SMART - Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, and Time bound
SME - Subject Matter Expert
SMH - Shaking my head.
SOAR - Strengths, Opportunities, Aspirations, and Results.
SPAM - Special Processed American Meat
SWOT - Strength, Weakness, Opportunities, Strengths


TBD - To Be Decided
TBH - To Be Honest
TIFU - Today I fudged up.
TL;DR - Too Long, Didn't Read
TTYL - Talk to you later
TYT - Take Your Time


VAK - Visual, Auditory and Kinesthetic.
VC - Virtual Class
VLE - Virtual Learning Environment
VPN - Virtual Private Network
VRIO - Value, Rarity, Inimitability, and Organization.
VUCA - Volatile, Uncertain, Complex and Ambiguous.


WBT - Web Based Training
WDTY - What Do You Think?
WEG - Wicked evil grin.
WFH - Working from home
WIIFM - What's In It For Me
WOM - Word of mouth
WTF - What The F*



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