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FB needs a poll option...that is all
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Just start saying “to summarize...” and wrap their long version into a short succinct version over and over again until they start doing it themselves
Learn to detach retinas and make internal jokes with self to keep hope alive.
My bad fam...
I have said, “that was a lot of words, bulletpoint it for me” the senior manager called me out later, but agreed with the outcome .
Nothing you can do. I sometimes zone out and then when they summarize I listen up. It’s too distracting. Once had a manager who was like this and you can imagine what a painful experience was this.
The same people routinely let every meeting go 30 minutes over
Give constructive feedback and help them to become a better communicator.
I am a person who can do that (be long winded). If I am doing that regularly with you, a tactful statement of can you summarize that for me? - even just once- usually allows me to get the hint. Maybe twice if I'm I'm not getting the hint. Just say something like that and it doesn't put my defenses up
Coffee helps.
God I hate that too. I have a hard time hiding it.
I’ve used “less is more” when appropriate