Consulting & Strategy Jargon · Managing Director level

"Strategic priorities"

"Strategic priorities" are the small number of goals a company or team officially designates as most important, usually for a given year or planning period.

Say this instead: top priorities

How "Strategic priorities" shows up at work

The plural form of 'the thing that matters,' repeated often enough that nobody asks which ones got quietly dropped from last year's list. Appears in every annual kickoff deck, typically accompanied by exactly three to five bullet points.

Buzzword

Our strategic priorities for the year are outlined in the attached deck.

Plain English

The goals we are focused on this year are outlined in the attached deck.

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