PSA — “Solution” is a noun, not a verb. We don’t “solution” things, we “solve for” them. The same goes for “decision”, as long as you are not consulting for the boxing/wrestling industry.

Take care of your language, and your language will take care of you.

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Ok. Imma go leverage some synergies.

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You mean you gonna synergize!

Annoying is a verb to explain what OP is doing to me.
It’s also an adjective that describes this post.

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PSA- Language is always evolving and today's slang is tomorrow's proper term. This is why we don't speak like shakespeare anymore. Trying to judge people's use of language makes you seem mean and closed minded.

In fact, using a noun as a verb is a wonderful feature of English.

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“To lead a solutioning workshop” rolls off the tongue quite well! I’m going to start using it. Thanks for the tip!

This also reminded me of all the times I’ve had to tell data/solution architects not to refer to something as a “final solution” because of the historical context of that particular phrase.

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Plus it’s never final anyway. That is such a waterfall way of thinking.

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It’s a noun, not a verb, but your point stands.

I maintain the grammatically poor common parlance in this profession is still less offensive than was the case in the Army, though.

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Thanks for the #PlsFix. 🙂 Need the caffeine to kick in.

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I use solutioning as a pejorative, is that okay?

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Imma go into this meeting for serious decisioning

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I used to be a stuck up jerk for this stuff but realized years ago how futile that is. Ironically OP has put solutioning in my head as i just wrote an email using the term. “Joe is leading the solutioning” just sounds better than the alternatives i could think of.

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OP trashing people for using the word solutioning but then goes and talks about words being tasty 🤮🤢

Solutioning

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whatever you say nerd 🤓

Great thought! Now could you pls action those remaining comments? Thx

Every time someone uses “action” as a verb, I picture Harry Potter casting an “accio” spell.

Sigh

Please principal your principles!

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