Meeting Bingo
Jul 24, 2020 Below you'll find three bingo cards that you can use to play Zoom Bingo on your next call. The boxes on the cards are all shuffled so you can play with your friends or colleagues too, if you think they would be up for it. Just make sure that you're also paying attention to the call while you're looking for cues to win the game! Before (or during) your next meeting, seminar, or conference call, prepare yourself by drawing a square. I find that 5'x5' is a good size. Divide the card into columns-five across and five down. That will give you 25 one-inch blocks. Write one of the following words/phrases in each block. Office Meeting Bingo Is Here to Make Your Office Meetings Less Terrible. 1) Print a stack of these. 2) Hand them out.
Managers use an esoteric language to describe very common activities. Anyone who works in an office will have heard some of the weasel words and buzzwords around the meeting table. Some of these words use evocative metaphors to express something quite mundane.
A helicopter view means that you are viewing the whole topic, and blue-sky thinking is just another word for daydreaming. Some of these words are used to give concept different meanings. A restructure is called a realignment or water utilities that use exotic words to describe recycled sewage.
Office Meeting Bingo
Buzzword Bingo!
Some of the more grounded people in the office, the lucid managers, devised a hypothetical games called Buzzword Bingo, also called Bullshit Bingo as perhaps the word buzzword is itself a buzzword that does not say it like it is. I have never met anyone who has actually played the game but is surely is a nice thought to sit in a boring meeting and shout BINGO as soon as your card with buzzwords is full.
Staff Meeting Bingo Cards
Play Buzzword Bingo, the most popular past time during boring meetings. The list of words you could use is endless. We hope to one day develop an application that can automatically detect buzzwords and shout 'Bingo' n the middle of a meeting. The image below is an example of a card.